Tag Archives: Comedy

You’re a Big Boy Now (1966)

Posted on April 13, 2011 at 12:12 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Francis Ford Coppola’s film school thesis, You’re a Big Boy Now, is also his first major picture (he’d directed Dementia 13 a few years before), and it’s appropriate that a coming-of-age comedy should also be a work of giddy experimentation … Continue reading →

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Blood Hook (1986)

Posted on April 9, 2011 at 12:14 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Wisconsin, America’s Dairyland, is home to homemade landing pads for UFOs, multiple haunted houses, a snaggle-toothed monster called the “Hodag,” mysterious Indian burial mounds, the magical House on the Rock (where, according to Neil Gaiman, the forgotten gods of the … Continue reading →

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The Thing With Two Heads (1972)

Posted on January 14, 2011 at 11:14 am by Jeff Kuykendall

The opening credits of this 1972 American International production proudly announce “Ray Milland and ‘Rosey’ Grier as…THE THING WITH TWO HEADS TWO HEADS.”  In the interest of promoting racial harmony, it delivers a drive-in parable of an old, wealthy, sickly, … Continue reading →

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