‘The Telephone Book’: A girl falls in love with the world’s greatest obscene phone caller
For well over a decade, really closer to two, I wasn’t sure that The Telephone Book even existed. I first read about the film in…
Movies Archives: 07/2013
Happy birthday Stanley Kubrick! (plus his first professional directing job from 1951)
Teenager Stanley Kubrick and his camera Stanley Kubrick, the great cinematic genius was born on July 26, 1928, in the Bronx, NY. To mark this…
‘Freedom’: Yoko Ono almost takes her bra off, while John Lennon makes electronic noises
Yoko Ono’s films tend to deal with themes of sexuality, intimacy, and the navigation of public life. 1969’s Rape is arguably her most famous work,…
‘The Flying Man’: Darkly original short film asks ‘What if superheroes were psychotic?’
The superhero genre has always played with the concept of vigilantism, albeit usually very lightly. Superman, Spider-Man and Batman were always thought (by some element…
Joe Franklin, TV’s clueless king of nostalgia, conducts an awkward interview with Dario Argento
Joe Franklin in his office. When it came to contemporary pop culture, New York’s king of nostalgia Joe Franklin was clueless. So whenever he had…
Bruce Lee’s kick-ass co-star in ‘Enter The Dragon’ Jim Kelly R.I.P.
Karate champ and film star Jim “The Dragon” Kelly has died of cancer at the age of 67. Six foot two with an explosive Afro,…