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
If MANNEQUIN is so bad, why have you seen it 15 times? Someone's got to defend it, so here I go! Lengthy piece with quotes and background!
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If MANNEQUIN is So Bad, Why Have You Seen it So Many Times? My Spirited Defense of a Humpback Classic!
If MANNEQUIN is so bad, why have you watched it so many times?
tremblesighwonder.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:22 PM
If MANNEQUIN is so bad, why have you seen it 15 times? Someone's got to defend it, so here I go! Lengthy piece with quotes and background!
tremblesighwonder.com/2022/01/23/i...
tremblesighwonder.com/2022/01/23/i...
Obscure YT of the day: 1968 episode of the tv show N.Y.P.D. "Cry Brute" with Frank Converse, Jack Warden Tony Lo Bianco & a big part for everyone's hero, a young Roy Scheider!
youtu.be/rRxVN0gq1g4?...
youtu.be/rRxVN0gq1g4?...
February 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Obscure YT of the day: 1968 episode of the tv show N.Y.P.D. "Cry Brute" with Frank Converse, Jack Warden Tony Lo Bianco & a big part for everyone's hero, a young Roy Scheider!
youtu.be/rRxVN0gq1g4?...
youtu.be/rRxVN0gq1g4?...
I don't think these heads belong on these bodies.
February 13, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I don't think these heads belong on these bodies.
Obscure YT of the day: 1983's college wrestling film HADLEY'S REBELLION beat VISION QUEST by two years! Fred Walton (WHEN A STRANGER CALLS) directs Griffin O'Neal (ESCAPE ARTIST), William Devane (MARATHON MAN), Charles Durning (TOOTSIE), Adam Baldwin (DC CAB)!
youtu.be/Rx7GV7x9Pfs?...
youtu.be/Rx7GV7x9Pfs?...
February 12, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Obscure YT of the day: 1983's college wrestling film HADLEY'S REBELLION beat VISION QUEST by two years! Fred Walton (WHEN A STRANGER CALLS) directs Griffin O'Neal (ESCAPE ARTIST), William Devane (MARATHON MAN), Charles Durning (TOOTSIE), Adam Baldwin (DC CAB)!
youtu.be/Rx7GV7x9Pfs?...
youtu.be/Rx7GV7x9Pfs?...
Coming soon, the incredible screenplays from Jim McBride's "lost" period in the 1970s after DAVID HOZMAN'S DIARY & before BREATHLESS & THE BIG EASY. With an intro with a detailed interview with McBride by yours truly.
February 12, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Coming soon, the incredible screenplays from Jim McBride's "lost" period in the 1970s after DAVID HOZMAN'S DIARY & before BREATHLESS & THE BIG EASY. With an intro with a detailed interview with McBride by yours truly.
The people running this country are genuinely so horrible it's hard to imagine what runs through their minds. Incomprehensible cretins.
February 11, 2026 at 10:50 PM
The people running this country are genuinely so horrible it's hard to imagine what runs through their minds. Incomprehensible cretins.
You may have lead a better life than me, but you've never been complimented with "Pure Mexican" by Brian De Palma. Read Brian De Palma's AMBROSE CHAPEL to see how purely Mexican it is! Available now!
February 11, 2026 at 3:38 PM
You may have lead a better life than me, but you've never been complimented with "Pure Mexican" by Brian De Palma. Read Brian De Palma's AMBROSE CHAPEL to see how purely Mexican it is! Available now!
Obscure YT of the day: Who dares resist a super-rare 1977 giallo starring Catherine Deneuve (!!!) & Vittorio Gassman! Shot in Venice!
ANIMA PERSA(aka THE FORBIDDEN ROOM), directed by Dino Risi (the original SCENT OF A WOMAN that Pacino remade, among many others)!
youtu.be/vT0X8D2_OKc?...
ANIMA PERSA(aka THE FORBIDDEN ROOM), directed by Dino Risi (the original SCENT OF A WOMAN that Pacino remade, among many others)!
youtu.be/vT0X8D2_OKc?...
February 11, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Obscure YT of the day: Who dares resist a super-rare 1977 giallo starring Catherine Deneuve (!!!) & Vittorio Gassman! Shot in Venice!
ANIMA PERSA(aka THE FORBIDDEN ROOM), directed by Dino Risi (the original SCENT OF A WOMAN that Pacino remade, among many others)!
youtu.be/vT0X8D2_OKc?...
ANIMA PERSA(aka THE FORBIDDEN ROOM), directed by Dino Risi (the original SCENT OF A WOMAN that Pacino remade, among many others)!
youtu.be/vT0X8D2_OKc?...
Obscure YT of the day:
The very hard to see Claudia Cardinale vehicle, A ROSE FOR EVERYONE (1967)! What a smile! Directed by Franco Rossi! You have to click on settings, not "CC," to get some English subtitles, but they're there. Very hard film to see!
youtu.be/wS1G8FVf2gw?...
The very hard to see Claudia Cardinale vehicle, A ROSE FOR EVERYONE (1967)! What a smile! Directed by Franco Rossi! You have to click on settings, not "CC," to get some English subtitles, but they're there. Very hard film to see!
youtu.be/wS1G8FVf2gw?...
February 10, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Obscure YT of the day:
The very hard to see Claudia Cardinale vehicle, A ROSE FOR EVERYONE (1967)! What a smile! Directed by Franco Rossi! You have to click on settings, not "CC," to get some English subtitles, but they're there. Very hard film to see!
youtu.be/wS1G8FVf2gw?...
The very hard to see Claudia Cardinale vehicle, A ROSE FOR EVERYONE (1967)! What a smile! Directed by Franco Rossi! You have to click on settings, not "CC," to get some English subtitles, but they're there. Very hard film to see!
youtu.be/wS1G8FVf2gw?...
Bonus Obscure YT of the day:
The very hard to see Claudia Cardinale vehicle, A ROSE FOR EVERYONE (1967)! What a smile! Directed by Franco Rossi! You have to click on settings, not "CC," to get some English subtitles, but they're there. Very hard film to see!
youtu.be/wS1G8FVf2gw?...
The very hard to see Claudia Cardinale vehicle, A ROSE FOR EVERYONE (1967)! What a smile! Directed by Franco Rossi! You have to click on settings, not "CC," to get some English subtitles, but they're there. Very hard film to see!
youtu.be/wS1G8FVf2gw?...
February 9, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Bonus Obscure YT of the day:
The very hard to see Claudia Cardinale vehicle, A ROSE FOR EVERYONE (1967)! What a smile! Directed by Franco Rossi! You have to click on settings, not "CC," to get some English subtitles, but they're there. Very hard film to see!
youtu.be/wS1G8FVf2gw?...
The very hard to see Claudia Cardinale vehicle, A ROSE FOR EVERYONE (1967)! What a smile! Directed by Franco Rossi! You have to click on settings, not "CC," to get some English subtitles, but they're there. Very hard film to see!
youtu.be/wS1G8FVf2gw?...
“Why did the models have to die?” 🤔
Finally answered.
By me.
"I’m Here to Sell for You: Michael Crichton’s LOOKER" — a loving deep dive into a much-maligned kinda screwed up humpback ’80s sci-fi satire that’s smarter, funnier, and stranger than its rep.
tremblesighwonder.com/2021/05/16/i...
Finally answered.
By me.
"I’m Here to Sell for You: Michael Crichton’s LOOKER" — a loving deep dive into a much-maligned kinda screwed up humpback ’80s sci-fi satire that’s smarter, funnier, and stranger than its rep.
tremblesighwonder.com/2021/05/16/i...
February 9, 2026 at 10:24 PM
“Why did the models have to die?” 🤔
Finally answered.
By me.
"I’m Here to Sell for You: Michael Crichton’s LOOKER" — a loving deep dive into a much-maligned kinda screwed up humpback ’80s sci-fi satire that’s smarter, funnier, and stranger than its rep.
tremblesighwonder.com/2021/05/16/i...
Finally answered.
By me.
"I’m Here to Sell for You: Michael Crichton’s LOOKER" — a loving deep dive into a much-maligned kinda screwed up humpback ’80s sci-fi satire that’s smarter, funnier, and stranger than its rep.
tremblesighwonder.com/2021/05/16/i...
Obscure YT of the day: A cab driver (Yaphet Kotto!) drives a fugitive to Mexico (David Janssen!) in NIGHT CHASE (1970)! Shades of COLLATERAL! Victoria Vetri, Elisha Cook Jr, William Katt, & Richard Romanus costar! Directed by Jack Starrett (RACE WITH THE DEVIL!)
youtu.be/MK0jmY01xxk?...
youtu.be/MK0jmY01xxk?...
February 9, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Obscure YT of the day: A cab driver (Yaphet Kotto!) drives a fugitive to Mexico (David Janssen!) in NIGHT CHASE (1970)! Shades of COLLATERAL! Victoria Vetri, Elisha Cook Jr, William Katt, & Richard Romanus costar! Directed by Jack Starrett (RACE WITH THE DEVIL!)
youtu.be/MK0jmY01xxk?...
youtu.be/MK0jmY01xxk?...
I will say that if the Cliff Booth thing is a half-assed mediocre sequel, it will actually fit in w/ Tarantino's 60s-70s ethos:
They Call Me Mr. Tibbs after In the Heat of the Night, Come Back Charlston Blue after Cotton Comes to Harlem, Lady in Cement after Tony Rome! All meh!
They Call Me Mr. Tibbs after In the Heat of the Night, Come Back Charlston Blue after Cotton Comes to Harlem, Lady in Cement after Tony Rome! All meh!
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
I will say that if the Cliff Booth thing is a half-assed mediocre sequel, it will actually fit in w/ Tarantino's 60s-70s ethos:
They Call Me Mr. Tibbs after In the Heat of the Night, Come Back Charlston Blue after Cotton Comes to Harlem, Lady in Cement after Tony Rome! All meh!
They Call Me Mr. Tibbs after In the Heat of the Night, Come Back Charlston Blue after Cotton Comes to Harlem, Lady in Cement after Tony Rome! All meh!
Reposted by James Kenney
The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample
The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample
The BBC is bringing back its Radiophonic Workshop as a tool for a new generation of musicians.
buff.ly
February 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample
New to TSW: Somebody's got to be the last remaining John Cusack completist. I review THE FOG OF WAR (2025).
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Foggy, Indeed
Someone’s got to be the last remaining John Cusack completist.
tremblesighwonder.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:39 PM
New to TSW: Somebody's got to be the last remaining John Cusack completist. I review THE FOG OF WAR (2025).
tremblesighwonder.com/2026/02/08/f...
tremblesighwonder.com/2026/02/08/f...
Claudia Cardinale is really something in THE GIRL WITH THE SUITCASE.
February 8, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Claudia Cardinale is really something in THE GIRL WITH THE SUITCASE.
Some Uncle Floyd promo clips from 1980. There'll never be another: www.facebook.com/reel/1537413...
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Uncle Floyd Show Promos
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February 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Some Uncle Floyd promo clips from 1980. There'll never be another: www.facebook.com/reel/1537413...
Obscure YT of the day:
Peter Weller (ROBOCOP) is a cop & Leslie Ann Warren (CLUE, CHOOSE ME) is a sculptor in 1986's bloody art-world thriller APOLOGY, directed by Robert Bierman (VAMPIRE'S KISS). John Glover, Harvey Fierstein, Chris Noth costar.
youtu.be/HIj9puNe5Hw?...
Peter Weller (ROBOCOP) is a cop & Leslie Ann Warren (CLUE, CHOOSE ME) is a sculptor in 1986's bloody art-world thriller APOLOGY, directed by Robert Bierman (VAMPIRE'S KISS). John Glover, Harvey Fierstein, Chris Noth costar.
youtu.be/HIj9puNe5Hw?...
February 8, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Obscure YT of the day:
Peter Weller (ROBOCOP) is a cop & Leslie Ann Warren (CLUE, CHOOSE ME) is a sculptor in 1986's bloody art-world thriller APOLOGY, directed by Robert Bierman (VAMPIRE'S KISS). John Glover, Harvey Fierstein, Chris Noth costar.
youtu.be/HIj9puNe5Hw?...
Peter Weller (ROBOCOP) is a cop & Leslie Ann Warren (CLUE, CHOOSE ME) is a sculptor in 1986's bloody art-world thriller APOLOGY, directed by Robert Bierman (VAMPIRE'S KISS). John Glover, Harvey Fierstein, Chris Noth costar.
youtu.be/HIj9puNe5Hw?...
Obscure YT of the day: Telly Savalas makes a welcome return as Kojak in THE BELARUS FILE (1985)! Suzanne Pleshette, Max Von Sydow costar! Veteran Robert Markowitz helms.
youtu.be/ADi-3bBH7u8?...
youtu.be/ADi-3bBH7u8?...
February 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Obscure YT of the day: Telly Savalas makes a welcome return as Kojak in THE BELARUS FILE (1985)! Suzanne Pleshette, Max Von Sydow costar! Veteran Robert Markowitz helms.
youtu.be/ADi-3bBH7u8?...
youtu.be/ADi-3bBH7u8?...
Obscure YT of the day: James Caan is a tap-dancing ghost in 1982's KISS ME GOODBYE, w/ Jeff Bridges & Sally Field! Also Paul Dooley (BREAKING AWAY), Claire Trevor & Mildred Natwick. Directed by Robert Mulligan (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD)
m.ok.ru/video/332255...
m.ok.ru/video/332255...
February 6, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Obscure YT of the day: James Caan is a tap-dancing ghost in 1982's KISS ME GOODBYE, w/ Jeff Bridges & Sally Field! Also Paul Dooley (BREAKING AWAY), Claire Trevor & Mildred Natwick. Directed by Robert Mulligan (TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD)
m.ok.ru/video/332255...
m.ok.ru/video/332255...
The Larry Cohen book...taking off! ✈️
February 5, 2026 at 10:36 PM
The Larry Cohen book...taking off! ✈️
Since nobody cares, I'll tell ya -- they cut out the scene where Paul Dooley goes back to the quarry to visit the old men still working. Beautiful scene, removed!
Does anyone besides me remember what one scene they cut out of BREAKING AWAY when NBC aired it two weeks after the Oscars? I was 9 at the time and still spotted it.
February 5, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Since nobody cares, I'll tell ya -- they cut out the scene where Paul Dooley goes back to the quarry to visit the old men still working. Beautiful scene, removed!
Does anyone besides me remember what one scene they cut out of BREAKING AWAY when NBC aired it two weeks after the Oscars? I was 9 at the time and still spotted it.
February 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Does anyone besides me remember what one scene they cut out of BREAKING AWAY when NBC aired it two weeks after the Oscars? I was 9 at the time and still spotted it.
The Larry Cohen book i edited on the shelf at Forbidden Planet NYC. Grab it!
February 5, 2026 at 8:38 PM
The Larry Cohen book i edited on the shelf at Forbidden Planet NYC. Grab it!