Ten Inch Hero (2007)
If you haven’t already guessed: this is another John Doe flick in our week-long tribute to his acting career. And even though John Doe brought us here — and does a great turn as a romantic lead — if he wasn’t here, I still would have loved this under-the-radar sleeper. The feature film writing debut […]
Urgh! A Music War (1981)
This is a rock-documentary-cum-concert flick that dispenses with the backstage tomfoolery and goes right to the stage with professionally-shot footage compiled from a variety of 1980-era shows held in England, France, and the United States. And there’s a couple of reasons why the Police spearhead Urgh! A Music War: Not only were they the most […]
Brokedown Palace (1999)
What do you get when you have a Roger Corman-bred director and a screenplay titled after a cut from the Grateful Dead’s 1970 album American Beauty? A box-office bomb that failed at making back half of its $25 million budget. The film killed Jonathan Kaplan’s feature film career and became his last feature film. That’s […]
John Doe Week: Black Circle Boys (1998)
Editor’s Desk: This review originally ran on October 7, 2020, as part of our October 2020 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge. We’ve brought it back for John Doe Week. “I don’t want to take lessons! I wanna have a fucking band! Fucking be like Deicide! Deicide. Yes, Deicide!”—Shane Carver, loser leader of the Black Circle Boys Yeah, […]
Santa’s Christmas Elf Named Calvin (1971)
Oh Barry Mahon. While the rest of the world thrills to Tom Cruise cussing out castmembers concerning COVID-19, Mahon’s real-life story offers movie maniacs the kind f thrills that we breathlessly devour and share with one another. After volunteering for the British air force before America officially entered World War II, Mahon earned the British […]
Salvation! (1987)
Okay, so we’re cheating with this review. It doesn’t star John Doe, the subject of our week-long film tribute. This parody on organized religion and the mass communication medium of television directed by New York No Wave artist Beth B stars Doe’s ex-wife Exene Cervenka, who meet her second husband Viggo Mortensen on the set […]
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