Category Archives: Theater Ballroom
You’re a Big Boy Now (1966)
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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Tagged 60's, Comedy, coming of age, slapstick
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All This and World War II (1976)
As a Beatles fan, I had heard about this film for many years, but was under the false impression that it never actually got made. It’s mentioned as seldom as May Pang. But recently, while I was in the basement … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Beatles, Documentary, Rock Musical, WWII
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Son of Dracula (1974)
No, 1974’s Son of Dracula might not be a good film by any measure, but over the years it may have gotten a worse rap than it deserves. It has a strange pedigree, the kind that a mad scientist might … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Frankenstein, horror, Merlin, Rock Musical, Vampire, Werewolf
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