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Switchblade Sisters (1975)

Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

It’s nice to know that movies like Switchblade Sisters (1975) exist. Because the 1970’s weren’t like this – they ought to have been – although I suspect that director Jack Hill was simply expressing what he felt all drive-in films … Continue reading →

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She (1982)

Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

She – apparently filmed in 1982 but not released until 1985 – opens with a quote from H. Rider Haggard’s source novel, “In Earth and Skie and Sea/Strange Thynges Ther Be,” which apparently is all the impetus writer/director Avi Nesher … Continue reading →

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Rollerball (1975)

Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

70’s cinema produced a striking number of dystopian visions. Maybe it was fallout from the assassinations and riots of the 60’s, or the fledgling environmentalist movement, or lingering bitterness over Vietnam and Nixon, or all those things; but the future … Continue reading →

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