2016 was a terrible year and I don't think anyone will argue against that, do I need to remind you of all the terrible things that happened in the last 12 months? Well I don't want to, read it somewhere else I'm not your mother. 2016 was NOT a terrible year for movies...
William Brent Bell: An Exhausting Examination
by Keenan Tamblyn First let me start off by saying William Brent Bell is a terrible filmmaker, he's bad, his movies are bad, I've seen all of them and laughed every single one off screen. Now that being said it's also worth noting that he's the director behind one of...
Skidon’t: The spectacular failure of Otto Preminger’s Skidoo (1968)
by Keenan Marr Tamblyn Otto Preminger was a director of amazing intentions and not always amazing execution, at least in the latter half of his career, but to me he'll always be one of the unsung heroes of cinema. Preminger made the first major Hollywood where the...
Reynolds Quest #2: Burt is feeling the Heat (1986) …of his film career diminishing
By Keenan Marr Tamblyn I have no idea how Burt Reynolds managed to make the amount of generic action movies that he did, especially after just about every movie he made in the 80s was a flop, including this one. But oh man, this movie is... I don't even know....
Stick (1985): Reynolds Quest #1
by Keenan Marr Tamblyn As my bold first choice for an ongoing series of reviews I'll be writing, I've decided to embark on one which will likely kill me...to watch every Burt Reynolds movie ever made. Rather than start with the obvious, I'm going with a lesser known...
Bette Davis is a “Wicked Stepmother” (1989)
By Keenan Marr Tamblyn Having been a Larry Cohen fan for years and years it's shocking to me that I've taken this long to finally get around to watching WICKED STEPMOTHER (though to be fair it was nearly impossible to track down a watchable copy of it til recently)....