LAS VEGAS LADY (1981)

After professional setbacks which included two troubled projects in a row (one of which caused his irreparable split with actor John Holmes), the creative burnout that director Bob Chinn was feeling in 1981 is completely and utterly palpable in Las Vegas Lady. A blank, 57-minute stare across a desolate parking lot and into the middle […]

TELEFANTASY (1978)

Utilizing a simple idea of a floundering television station grabbing for ratings by injecting a whole bunch of sex into their news program, Bob Chinn’s Telefantasy is like a Mad Magazine parody of Sidney Lumet’s Network it if ran in Screw Magazine. Unfortunately, Telefantasy has not proved to be as prophetic as Network. For all […]

DISCO LADY (1978)

The problem with most New Year’s Eve movies is that they’re going to become much more bittersweet as the world changes and our connectivity is more virtual than it is real. These days, loading into the middle of the city on New Year’s Eve with a bunch of inebriated strangers just doesn’t have the same […]