JK launches YouTube-channel with three shorts

Posted on by Jeppe Kleijngeld

“As far as back as I could remember, I always wanted to be a filmmaker.”

After a break of nearly 20 years I am back in the film business. And this time in the online age. Through my new channel – Jeppy’s Video Circus – I plan to release short videos regularly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am starting off with three shorts that went live this week:

Enforcer Nr. 1
He is introduced as a legendary character in the first Godfather, but then he is quickly killed off. What is the background story of Don Corleone’s hitman Luca Brasi?

Modern Conquest
After the second world war came another war, this time for the contents of our wallets. The country that did best for a while was the one with the most cultural impact. You guessed it, the US and A.

Sharpshit Troopers
This short focuses on a single line from the original Star Wars. Were stormtroopers originally meant to be perceived as dangerous? That is something that good old George Lucas did not make explicitly clear in his original vision as you will see.

There’s more to come in 2021!

Dungeon Classics #10: Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Posted on by Jeppe Kleijngeld

FilmDungeon’s Chief Editor JK sorts through the Dungeon’s DVD-collection to look for old cult favorites….

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990, USA)

Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover
Running Time: 106 mins.

According to IMDb, director Joe Dante prefers this movie to the first one. Understandably so. Obviously, the makers had a lot of fun coming up with the overload of mayhem the new batch of gremlins cause. This time Billy finds Gizmo in a hyper modern office building, but leaves him unattended. So of course, he gets wet and the gremlins make a glorious return, creating an incredible amount of damage to the building. Since most of the human characters are unsympathetic, it is easy to root for the monsters. It is only because of Gizmo, who Spielberg insisted must remain good in the first film (originally he was to turn into Stripe), that we find satisfaction in the gremlins’ ultimate demise. This fast-paced sequel does indeed offer plenty of the good stuff that made the first movie such a resounding success.

Dungeon Classics #9: Gremlins

Posted on by Jeppe Kleijngeld

FilmDungeon’s Chief Editor JK sorts through the Dungeon’s DVD-collection to look for old cult favorites….

Gremlins (1984, USA)

Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton
Running Time: 106 mins.

Billy gets a very special Christmas present: A mogwai (Kantonese for monster or devil). A cute little furry thing called Gizmo. The problem is: keeping mogwais ain’t that easy. You get them wet, they spawn more mogwais. You feed them after midnight, they morph into the little monsters called gremlins. And if you drop one in a swimming pool…you get violence, terror, and mayhem during the Christmas season. This Spielberg-produced creature feature became understandably very popular. It has many memorable scenes, a super cute hero and a terrific villain in Stripe, leader of the monstrous gremlins. The movie has aged pretty well due to the excellent creature effects (all animatronics). And since it is family oriented, it remains a favorite for the holidays. Not just for eighties nostalgists like me.