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James Kenney
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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
I think we're very unsettled this morning because if they can relegate Tom Cruise to an untelevised segment of the Academy Awards, it means they can relegate all of us to an untelevised segment of the Academy Awards.
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Obscure 80s of the day: Mary Lambert (PET SEMETARY) directed 1987's SIESTA, w/ Ellen Barkin, Gabrielle Byrne, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Isabella Rossellini, Grace Jones & Julian Sands! The writer was a sculptor married to Zalman King & wrote a lot of his films!

m.ok.ru/video/165176...
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Obscure YT of the day: A blind guy, a guy w/ no hands, & a guy in a wheelchair rob a museum in 1973's BEG, BORROW & STEAL! Mike Connors (Mannix), Michael Cole (Mod Squad), Kent McCord (Adam 12), Russell Johnson (Gilligan's Island). Directed by David Lowell Rich!

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November 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by James Kenney
Ever wonder what it’s like to spend 50+ years watching movies for a living? David Sterritt’s A Cinephile Under the Influence has the stories, the debates, the legends — and the love of cinema. Out now!

Order direct from Sticking Place Books for a discount.
stickingplacebooks.com/a-cinephile-...
November 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Gosling's the Fall Guy and Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning (or whatever it's called) were overrated on Twitter upon release, but they were Battleship Potemkin compared to the Neeson Naked Gun, which is awful. You guys had me going in expectant, and it was worse than Spy Hard.
November 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
WKRP's Gary Sandy won some "Giants in Broadcasting Award for 2025" from the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation at an event held in NYC. Glad to see he's out and about and looking fit at 80.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Obscure Roger Moore for Saturday night: Roger Moore and Susannah York star in a 1975 comedy about an arms dealer(!) THAT LUCKY TOUCH! Lee J. Cobb and Shelley Winters costar! Directed by Christopher Miles (PRIEST OF LOVE)

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November 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Foreign posters for Larry Cohen's Q: The Winged Serpent, God Told Me To & The Ambulance.

Cohen's memoir I KILLED BETTIE DAVIS and an unproduced screenplay HEADHUNTER now available from Sticking Place Books.

Order direct for a huge discount: stickingplacebooks.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Friday night is MIAMI VICE night, brothers and sisters!
November 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Deathstalker II still.
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Obscure YT of the day: THINGS I NEVER TOLD YOU (1996), an interesting dark romantic comedy about a suicide hotline worker w/ Lili Taylor & Andrew McCarthy, by noted Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet (PARIS JE T'AIME, ELEGY). No U.S. release. Worth checking out.

youtu.be/7BCb2ztnx44?...
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Tonight's bedtime reading.
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I wanted this photo on the cover of the book but I was outvoted. Larry Cohen's memoirs, almost 500 pages and packed with photos from the private Larry Cohen archives, now available with a foreword from John Landis!

Order directly from SPB for a discount: stickingplacebooks.com/i-killed-bet...
November 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Larry Cohen and Stan lee flank Larry Cohen's creation, "Dr. Strong," who is the protagonist of Larry Cohen's unproduced screenplay HEADHUNTER, out now with an intro by me featuring some cool stills and photos from the Larry Cohen archives!

stickingplacebooks.com/headhunter/
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Obscure Larry Cohen of the day: In celebration of the release of LC's memoirs and an unproduced screenplay by Sticking Place Books, SHOOTOUT IN A ONE DOG TOWN (1974)/w Richard Crenna, Stefanie Powers, Jack Elam & more! Written by Cohen, directed by Burt Kennedy!

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November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Obscure Sally Kirkland of the day: Roger Corman's Concorde put out IN THE HEAT OF PASSION a few years after SK's Oscar nomination for ANNA! Lisa Kudrow! Also Nick Corri (aka Jsu Garcia), future director Carl Franklin & Michael Greene (TO LIVE & DIE IN LA)

m.ok.ru/video/217395...
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Larry Cohen! His screenplay HEADHUNTER & memoir I KILLED BETTIE DAVIS now available in both hardcover & paperback! I edited both & wrote intros.

The hardcover Cohen has color and black & white images, the softcover has black & white images.

Buy direct from SPB for BIG discount!
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Slight, two-day delay on the hardcover Cohen memoir, but HEADHUNTER, his unproduced vigilante/"superhero" screenplay is out now, available at a swell discount at SPB. With an intro by me and photos from the Larry Cohen collection!

stickingplacebooks.com/headhunter/
Headhunter - Sticking Place Books
Larry Cohen Some call him the phantom physician, or the medical marvel. He is a masked vigilante who not only captures criminals, but “cures“ them as well. The police consider him an outlaw. Medical s...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Publication day is...tomorrow! 🥂
November 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
They All Laughed, baby!
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Obscure YT of the day: RIP Sally Kirkland. Here is the episode of the anthology PICTURE WINDOWS Peter Bogdanovich directed, "Song of Songs," starring Kirkland alongside George Segal and Brooke Adams.

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November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Obscure YT of the night: LIGHT YEARS (1988), an animated film from Rene Lalaux (FORBIDDEN PLANET), that was released by Miramax in 1988 w/ an impressive voice cast inc. Glenn Close, Christopher Plummer, Bridget Fonda and more.

youtu.be/koUpDfnq_zc?...
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
In May 1988, the New York Times let you know you had your choice of lurid action films!
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM