The 1968 film Head was a watershed moment in The Monkees’ career. The film depicted a series of vignettes amounting to a loosely interpretive message by the band signaling the end of their pop star ...

How did The Monkees get involved with ‘Head’? The last episode of The Monkees Emmy-winning television show aired in March 1968, during its second and final filming season. During that time, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fifty years ago, Columbia Pictures and Raybert Productions released a fascinating ’60s celluloid artifact promised to be “the most ...

Jack Nicholson's filmography extends beyond his career as an actor, including this surreal cult musical movie he co-wrote.

Peter Mills, in addition to being an author, is also Senior Lecturer in Media and Popular Culture at Leeds Beckett University. He has used The Monkees’ bizarre 1968 film Head in his teaching. It’s ...

I don't think, as a teenage fangirl, that I realized exactly how bitter, how cynical, how teeth-grittingly furious the Monkees' 1968 movie Head is. How it starts with — more or less — a suicide: Micky ...

The "Head" cult turned out in enthusiastic force for the weirdly countercultural movie vehicle for the TV-bred 1960s band. The rough, sometimes druggy genesis of the American independent movie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An 85-minute exodus into the heart of American media wasn’t for the fans who were buying Monkees-branded lunchboxes, and those who ...

As the head of Screen Gems, Don Kirshner helped control every element of the Monkees' early years. His production and distribution studio chose the songs they were allowed to record and who got to ...

In Head, the Monkees made a play for creative and cultural respect. Did it work? No. Was it a strangely great movie? Heck yeah. I don't think, as a teenage fangirl, that I realized exactly how bitter, ...