Tag Archives: Action

Caged Heat (1974)

Posted on June 15, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Never forget that acclaimed director Jonathan Demme’s debut was a women-in-prison film from 1974 with gratuitous nudity, bloody mayhem, and a gonzo style which indicates to the viewer that all the trashiness just might have quotation marks around it. Which … Continue reading →

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Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)

Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

The third installment of the now-unstoppable Planet of the Apes franchise was something of a miracle baby, and it benefited from the unusual birth. When last we left the saga, in Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Charlton Heston’s … Continue reading →

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Motorpsycho (1965)

Posted on June 8, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

With Lorna (1964) and Mudhoney (1965), Russ Meyer finally graduated from his cheap but colorful “nudie-cuties” to feature-length narratives, and drive-in screens would never be the same again. His preference was lurid melodrama with hyperbolic scripts (he had his name … Continue reading →

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