You’re Gonna Miss Me (2017)
No, this isn’t a docudrama about the creative, sad soul that was Roky Erickson and his band the 13th Floor Elevators (although there’s a 2007 documentary about Roky with the title). This is a dramedy written and produced by Eric Brooks (who’s eight films deep in the TV movie realms, including two Hallmark Christmas flicks*) […]
Repost: The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
Editor’s Note: This review originally ran on June 21, 2020, as part of our “Rock ‘n’ Roll Week.” We’ve brought it back for our “John Doe Week of Films.” Penelope Spheeris may be best known for Wayne’s World, but her life and films are more than just one movie. Until the age of seven, Spheeris grew […]
Roadside Prophets (1992)
Filmmaker Abbe Wool made her feature film debut as a screenwriter with her 1986 chronicle on the Sex Pistols’ Sid Vicious with Sid and Nancy. And she made her directing debut on this troubled production — her only directing effort (which she also wrote) — a reimaging of Easy Rider starring John Doe of X […]
The Red Right Hand (2001)
Editor’s Desk: This review originally ran on October 1, 2020, as part of our October 2020 annual “Slasher Month” and we’ve brought it back for “John Doe Week.“ As I write this, Boston’s iconic, trendsetting alternative rock station, WFNX 101.7 FM, is no more. When the station went on the air in 1947 as WLYN, […]
Santa Visits the Magic Land of Mother Goose (1967)
Happy holidays, everyone. To help celebrate, this is the first of two very horrifying holiday options for you to watch. Despite Santa being in the title of this movie, he only briefly appears, but that isn’t why we watched this movie. No, we’re here because this is another film in the career of Herschell Gordon […]
Repost: The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
Editor’s Desk: This review originally ran on May 25, 2018, as part of our “Stephen King Week” of reviews and we’ve brought it back for John Doe Week. Originally titled The Curse, this film, based on the real-life Spur Posse case (read up at Wikipedia; you’ve seen the case as plot fodder for Law & […]
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