James Kenney
@jfkenney.bsky.social
Saved Peter Bogdanovich's SQUIRRELS TO THE NUTS. Work featured in NY Times, Sight & Sound, New Yorker, LA Times TrembleSighWonder.com my site. Edited & wrote foreword to De Palma script. PB book coming, plus Jim McBride, Larry Cohen, Lizzie Borden books
Hey everyone! It's Roy Scheider!
January 19, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Hey everyone! It's Roy Scheider!
Obscure Kidman of day part 2: In 1989, George Miller (MAD MAX) produced an Aussie suspense-thriller mini-series designed as a star vehicle for Nicole Kidman, BANGKOK HILTON! W/ Denholm Elliot & Hugo Weaving.
Shot after DEAD CALM! 4 hours of Kidman in peril!
youtu.be/l8RitW-bGQY?...
Shot after DEAD CALM! 4 hours of Kidman in peril!
youtu.be/l8RitW-bGQY?...
January 19, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Obscure Kidman of day part 2: In 1989, George Miller (MAD MAX) produced an Aussie suspense-thriller mini-series designed as a star vehicle for Nicole Kidman, BANGKOK HILTON! W/ Denholm Elliot & Hugo Weaving.
Shot after DEAD CALM! 4 hours of Kidman in peril!
youtu.be/l8RitW-bGQY?...
Shot after DEAD CALM! 4 hours of Kidman in peril!
youtu.be/l8RitW-bGQY?...
Obscure Nicole Kidman of the day: 1988's EMERALD CITY; a family moves from Melbourne to the more cutthroat Sydney & complications ensue! W/ Kidman, John Hargreaves (SKY PILOTS), Robyn Nevin (MATRIX sequels). Directed by Michael Jenkins (REBEL, SWEET TALKER).
m.ok.ru/video/233108...
m.ok.ru/video/233108...
Видео Emerald City (1988) Standard Definition🌻 Movies | OK.RU
A couple move to Sydney from Melbourne, and soon become lured by the bright lights of the big city. Colin, the scriptwriter husband, is corrupted by his editor and then falls for the girlfriend of his...
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January 18, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Obscure Nicole Kidman of the day: 1988's EMERALD CITY; a family moves from Melbourne to the more cutthroat Sydney & complications ensue! W/ Kidman, John Hargreaves (SKY PILOTS), Robyn Nevin (MATRIX sequels). Directed by Michael Jenkins (REBEL, SWEET TALKER).
m.ok.ru/video/233108...
m.ok.ru/video/233108...
Reposted by James Kenney
Spoiler-free review of Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Joe Carnahan's THE RIP by yours truly. It's great, until it isn't. Still worth a look, but it suffers from SPEEDitis.
Link: tremblesighwonder.com/2026/01/17/g...
Link: tremblesighwonder.com/2026/01/17/g...
Genre Discipline, Then Genre Sprawl: THE RIP
The Rip is great for a while. Then it isn’t. Worth a look.
tremblesighwonder.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Spoiler-free review of Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Joe Carnahan's THE RIP by yours truly. It's great, until it isn't. Still worth a look, but it suffers from SPEEDitis.
Link: tremblesighwonder.com/2026/01/17/g...
Link: tremblesighwonder.com/2026/01/17/g...
Spoiler-free review of Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Joe Carnahan's THE RIP by yours truly. It's great, until it isn't. Still worth a look, but it suffers from SPEEDitis.
Link: tremblesighwonder.com/2026/01/17/g...
Link: tremblesighwonder.com/2026/01/17/g...
Genre Discipline, Then Genre Sprawl: THE RIP
The Rip is great for a while. Then it isn’t. Worth a look.
tremblesighwonder.com
January 17, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Spoiler-free review of Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Joe Carnahan's THE RIP by yours truly. It's great, until it isn't. Still worth a look, but it suffers from SPEEDitis.
Link: tremblesighwonder.com/2026/01/17/g...
Link: tremblesighwonder.com/2026/01/17/g...
Settling in for three days in a row of seeing the Lord of the Rings extended cuts theatrically! I've never seen them, but..kids!
January 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Settling in for three days in a row of seeing the Lord of the Rings extended cuts theatrically! I've never seen them, but..kids!
Gene Hackman and John Frankenheimer on the set of FRENCH CONNECTION II.
January 16, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Gene Hackman and John Frankenheimer on the set of FRENCH CONNECTION II.
Cult-film legend Michael Weldon's Psychotronic record store still going strong in Augusta, Georgia.
January 15, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Cult-film legend Michael Weldon's Psychotronic record store still going strong in Augusta, Georgia.
A 67-minute HAMLET from 1976 starring identical twins Anthony & David Myer as Hamlet, Laertes & Hamlet's father & Helen Mirren (!) as Ophelia & Gertrude. Quentin Crisp is Laertes. Directed by Celestino Coronado. It's fascinating.
youtu.be/143a_O3msNg?...
youtu.be/143a_O3msNg?...
January 15, 2026 at 11:33 AM
A 67-minute HAMLET from 1976 starring identical twins Anthony & David Myer as Hamlet, Laertes & Hamlet's father & Helen Mirren (!) as Ophelia & Gertrude. Quentin Crisp is Laertes. Directed by Celestino Coronado. It's fascinating.
youtu.be/143a_O3msNg?...
youtu.be/143a_O3msNg?...
Obscure YT of the day: Matt Dillon stars in the 1985 film REBEL w/ Bryan Brown (F/X, COCKTAIL) & Debra Byrne, an Aussie musical drama directed by Michael Jenkins set in WW II about a potential U.S. deserter in Australia. I found this very interesting.
youtu.be/ekT3ke_Jc10?...
youtu.be/ekT3ke_Jc10?...
January 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Obscure YT of the day: Matt Dillon stars in the 1985 film REBEL w/ Bryan Brown (F/X, COCKTAIL) & Debra Byrne, an Aussie musical drama directed by Michael Jenkins set in WW II about a potential U.S. deserter in Australia. I found this very interesting.
youtu.be/ekT3ke_Jc10?...
youtu.be/ekT3ke_Jc10?...
I could handle death being inside this movie theater from 1974 for eternity.
January 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I could handle death being inside this movie theater from 1974 for eternity.
My Bogdanovich publisher starting 2026 right with a translation of a book by and about the pioneering Soviet "sorceress of the editing table" and filmmaker Esfir' Shrub. She's cool!
MY LIFE IS THE CINEMA brings the writings of Esfir' Shub to English for the first time—the pioneering "sorceress of the editing table," & a comrade of Sergei Eisenstein& Dziga Vertov, she redefined montage, archival cinema, & documentary ethics.
Available now from SPB!
Available now from SPB!
January 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
My Bogdanovich publisher starting 2026 right with a translation of a book by and about the pioneering Soviet "sorceress of the editing table" and filmmaker Esfir' Shrub. She's cool!
Obscure 70s of the day: Elliot Gould, hot off MASH, is a playwright/porn author/dog walker in Stuart Rosenberg's 1970 comic MOVE, w/ Paula Prentiss, Geneviève Waïte, Ron O'Neal (Superfly)!
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m.ok.ru/video/322487...
January 13, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Obscure 70s of the day: Elliot Gould, hot off MASH, is a playwright/porn author/dog walker in Stuart Rosenberg's 1970 comic MOVE, w/ Paula Prentiss, Geneviève Waïte, Ron O'Neal (Superfly)!
m.ok.ru/video/322487...
m.ok.ru/video/322487...
Finally caught up with Harold Becker's THE BLACK MARBLE (1980), based on a Wambaugh novel. It's one of those films that's overlooked b/c the stars are not in fashion at all (Robert Foxworth & Paula Prentiss), but it's funny, offbeat, with some real unique personality.
January 13, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Finally caught up with Harold Becker's THE BLACK MARBLE (1980), based on a Wambaugh novel. It's one of those films that's overlooked b/c the stars are not in fashion at all (Robert Foxworth & Paula Prentiss), but it's funny, offbeat, with some real unique personality.
Obscure YT of the Day: DIANA RIGG, post AVENGERS, starred in 1968 in a series of connected dialogue-free Super 8 German short film thrillers called MINIKILLERS- "Operation Costa Brava," "Heroin," "Macabre" and "Flamenco" (!!!)
ESSENTIAL VIEWING!
youtu.be/22ZcD2R_aII?...
ESSENTIAL VIEWING!
youtu.be/22ZcD2R_aII?...
January 12, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Obscure YT of the Day: DIANA RIGG, post AVENGERS, starred in 1968 in a series of connected dialogue-free Super 8 German short film thrillers called MINIKILLERS- "Operation Costa Brava," "Heroin," "Macabre" and "Flamenco" (!!!)
ESSENTIAL VIEWING!
youtu.be/22ZcD2R_aII?...
ESSENTIAL VIEWING!
youtu.be/22ZcD2R_aII?...
Abel Ferrara directing THE ADDICTION (1995)
January 12, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Abel Ferrara directing THE ADDICTION (1995)
Obscure Henry Fonda of the day:
In 1965, Fonda starred in the European spy anthology(!) film THE DIRTY GAME! Robert Ryan, Vittorio Gassman, Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein star! Terence Young (James Bond) directed the Berlin sequence!
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In 1965, Fonda starred in the European spy anthology(!) film THE DIRTY GAME! Robert Ryan, Vittorio Gassman, Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein star! Terence Young (James Bond) directed the Berlin sequence!
m.ok.ru/video/657563...
Видео The Dirty Game (1965) WS Eng subs 480p | OK.RU
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | France/Italy/West Germany/USA | English/Italian/French/German w/ proprietary Eng subs | B&W | 123min | Directors: Christian-Jaque, Carlo Lizzani, Terence Young,...
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January 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Obscure Henry Fonda of the day:
In 1965, Fonda starred in the European spy anthology(!) film THE DIRTY GAME! Robert Ryan, Vittorio Gassman, Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein star! Terence Young (James Bond) directed the Berlin sequence!
m.ok.ru/video/657563...
In 1965, Fonda starred in the European spy anthology(!) film THE DIRTY GAME! Robert Ryan, Vittorio Gassman, Annie Girardot, Robert Hossein star! Terence Young (James Bond) directed the Berlin sequence!
m.ok.ru/video/657563...
Scott Bakula stars in Peter Bogdanovich's PROWLER, an unaired television pilot from 1995.
January 11, 2026 at 2:29 AM
Scott Bakula stars in Peter Bogdanovich's PROWLER, an unaired television pilot from 1995.
Obscure YT of the day:
Jeff Goldblum is the devil?
Watch and find out in 1990's MR. FROST! Alan Bates! Kathy Baker (CLEAN & SOBER, STREET SMART)! Vincent Schiavelli (FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH)!
youtu.be/CJ0Cv3AuDHk?...
Jeff Goldblum is the devil?
Watch and find out in 1990's MR. FROST! Alan Bates! Kathy Baker (CLEAN & SOBER, STREET SMART)! Vincent Schiavelli (FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH)!
youtu.be/CJ0Cv3AuDHk?...
January 10, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Obscure YT of the day:
Jeff Goldblum is the devil?
Watch and find out in 1990's MR. FROST! Alan Bates! Kathy Baker (CLEAN & SOBER, STREET SMART)! Vincent Schiavelli (FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH)!
youtu.be/CJ0Cv3AuDHk?...
Jeff Goldblum is the devil?
Watch and find out in 1990's MR. FROST! Alan Bates! Kathy Baker (CLEAN & SOBER, STREET SMART)! Vincent Schiavelli (FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH)!
youtu.be/CJ0Cv3AuDHk?...
Start 2026 with Larry Cohen...and Larry Cohen!
January 10, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Start 2026 with Larry Cohen...and Larry Cohen!
Reposted by James Kenney
DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/
Obscure YT of the day: Jules Dassin's (Night and the City, Topkapi, Never on Sunday) 1978 A DREAM OF PASSION w/ Ellyn Burstyn as a child killer sought out by actress Melina Mercouri. Dassin said "It’s one of the two films I’ve made that I’ve cared most about."
youtu.be/IFdpxFCnbmY?...
youtu.be/IFdpxFCnbmY?...
January 9, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Obscure YT of the day: Jules Dassin's (Night and the City, Topkapi, Never on Sunday) 1978 A DREAM OF PASSION w/ Ellyn Burstyn as a child killer sought out by actress Melina Mercouri. Dassin said "It’s one of the two films I’ve made that I’ve cared most about."
youtu.be/IFdpxFCnbmY?...
youtu.be/IFdpxFCnbmY?...
Now that De Palma is making a new film, you completists better get on the ball! A great read!
January 9, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Now that De Palma is making a new film, you completists better get on the ball! A great read!
Things coming in 2026, along with many witty and thought-provoking social media posts!:
Jim McBride's Lost Screenplays of the 1970s (w Jim McBride interview)
Alex Cox & Rudy Wurlitzer "Body Parts" & "Zero Tolerance" (w/Alex Cox interview)
Bogdanovich Revealed
...and more!
Jim McBride's Lost Screenplays of the 1970s (w Jim McBride interview)
Alex Cox & Rudy Wurlitzer "Body Parts" & "Zero Tolerance" (w/Alex Cox interview)
Bogdanovich Revealed
...and more!
January 8, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Things coming in 2026, along with many witty and thought-provoking social media posts!:
Jim McBride's Lost Screenplays of the 1970s (w Jim McBride interview)
Alex Cox & Rudy Wurlitzer "Body Parts" & "Zero Tolerance" (w/Alex Cox interview)
Bogdanovich Revealed
...and more!
Jim McBride's Lost Screenplays of the 1970s (w Jim McBride interview)
Alex Cox & Rudy Wurlitzer "Body Parts" & "Zero Tolerance" (w/Alex Cox interview)
Bogdanovich Revealed
...and more!