CREATION STORIES: ALAN MCGEE’S LIFE, LABEL, LEGACY COMES TO A THEATER NEAR YOU Amy Haben·May 3, 2021Glaswegian Alan McGee was the embodiment of the D.I.Y. spirit of the 1980s and 1990s, bringing Oasis, Primal...All Please Kill Me PostsBooksCool PeopleFilmInterviewsRecord Labels·0 Comments
SAM COOKE: EPITOME OF COOL Benito Vila·April 29, 2021 Sam Cooke is back in the spotlight with the release One Night in Miami, a feature film set...All Please Kill Me PostsBenito VilaCool PeopleFilmHistoryInterviewsMusicians·0 Comments
DAVID AMRAM: ON KEROUAC, GINSBERG, MINGUS, SPIRIT AND FAMILY Noah Lekas·April 22, 2021Composer David Amram, now 90, has worked with some of the jazz greats, including Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins,...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleFilmHistoryInterviews·1 Comment
MIDNIGHT COWBOY: A NEW YORK CITY PORTRAIT David Stewart·April 19, 2021Midnight Cowboy (1969) is the only X-rated movie to win the Best Picture Oscar. Now considered an American...All Please Kill Me PostsBest OfBooksDavid StewartFilm·0 Comments
HOW HOLLYWOOD HANDLED THE HIPPIES, PART II: BIKERS, BAD TRIPS, LOVE-INS Jim Allen·February 9, 2021Hollywood brass had discovered bikers long before the hippies (see Brando in The Wild One, 1953) but they...All Please Kill Me PostsFilmHistoryVIDEO·0 Comments
RUBBERHEAD: AKRON’S LASTING IMPACT ON CHUCK STATLER, GODFATHER OF MUSIC VIDEO JP Olsen·January 26, 2021Chuck Statler started his long career in innovative and influential music video by collaborating with his classmates and...All Please Kill Me PostsFilmInterviewsVIDEO·1 Comment
FOXY LADY: HONORING PAM GRIER Mark Jacobson·December 24, 2020Originally written in 1975, at the height of the so-called “Blaxploitation-era”, this New York Magazine piece was recently...All Please Kill Me PostsCool PeopleFilmHistoryMark Jacobson·0 Comments
FRANK ZAPPA: ALEX WINTER’S NEW FILM CAPTURES HIS GENIUS David Konow·December 21, 2020Today (Dec. 21, the first official day of winter) would have been Frank Zappa’s 80th birthday. Given how...All Please Kill Me PostsDocumentary FilmFilmHistoryInterviewsMusicians·1 Comment
MANK: THE MAN WHO CREATED CITIZEN KANE David Stewart·December 3, 2020A new Netflix film, Mank, directed by David Fincher, focuses attention on the career of Herman J. Mankiewicz....All Please Kill Me PostsDavid StewartFilmHistory·0 Comments
BLOOD FEAST: THE STOMACH-TURNING CINEMA OF HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS Tony Mostrom·October 28, 2020A former English teacher and mail-order salesman from Detroit named Herschell Gordon Lewis saw an exploitable niche in...All Please Kill Me PostsAnthony MostromFilmHistory·1 Comment
WILLIAM GREFE’: MASTER OF GRINDHOUSE CINEMA Anthony Petkovich·October 26, 2020Florida cult-film director William Grefe’ (‘Gruh-fay’) turned low-budget filmmaking into a sort of folk art in the ‘60s...All Please Kill Me PostsFilmHistoryInterviews·0 Comments
NICO ICON AND THE BOHEMIAN, OR, HOW TO WALK A WOLF THROUGH PARIS Gary Lippman·October 7, 2020Carlos De Maldonado-Bostock was identified as a “bohemian” in the credits of the documentary film Nico Icon (1995),...All Please Kill Me PostsFilmGary LippmanHistory·0 Comments
INSIDE FINGERED: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH FILMMAKER RICHARD KERN Supervert·September 28, 2020Richard Kern’s Fingered (1988) is one of the masterpieces of the Cinema of Transgression movement. With bruising performances...All Please Kill Me PostsFilmInterviews·2 Comments
NOBODY SPEAKS: GARY FARMER ON JIM JARMUSCH’S ‘DEAD MAN’ David Stewart·September 16, 2020Canadian-born, Native American actor Gary Farmer served as the moral conscience and spiritual center of Jim Jarmusch’s film...All Please Kill Me PostsDavid StewartFilmInterviews·0 Comments