Author Archives: Jeff Kuykendall

Flash Gordon (1980)

Posted on August 20, 2020 at 3:11 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Watching the interviews and reading the essays included in Arrow Video’s new deluxe Blu-ray edition of Mike Hodges’ Flash Gordon (1980), I’m struck at how poorly received the film was on release. At the time, I was too young to … Continue reading →

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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

Posted on August 14, 2020 at 3:56 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is a deeply strange blend of genres and styles, a film of raw imagination and improbable swagger that somehow escaped to theaters in 1984. Director W.D. Richter (who had written the 1978 … Continue reading →

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The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960)

Posted on August 7, 2020 at 1:29 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Renato Polselli’s L’amante del vampiro (The Vampire’s Lover, 1960) – released two years late in the U.S. as The Vampire and the Ballerina, on a double-bill with Vincent Price’s Tower of London – represents Italy’s newfound embrace of Gothic horror, which … Continue reading →

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