Author Archives: Jeff Kuykendall
That Guy Dick Miller (2014)
That Guy Dick Miller (2014), the new documentary from Elijah Drenner (American Grindhouse), hit the Wisconsin Film Festival last night with an unfortunate bit of timing: opposite the Wisconsin Badgers Final Four college basketball game. This didn’t just mean weaker … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Psychotronic
Tagged Dick Miller, horror, Joe Dante, John Sayles, Mary Woronov, Roger Corman, Science Fiction, sexploitation
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Mahler (1974)
Following the notoriety branded him by the one-two of The Music Lovers (1970) and The Devils (1971), hellion filmmaker Ken Russell pressed on with a string of smaller-scale and more accessible British films, but these nonetheless reinforced the fact that … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Ballroom
Tagged 70's, biopic, Ken Russell, Mahler, Surreal, Wagner
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Stephen King’s “It” (1990)
Monday, November 19th, 1990, all anyone could talk about in my high school cafeteria was Part I of Stephen King’s “It” (1990), which had aired the night before: the wounds in our psyche were fresh. A well-publicized two-part “Television Event” … Continue reading
