B&S About Movies is all about, well, movies. It's owned and operated by Sam Panico. He is the sole proprietor and chief writer. All others are guest contributors.
The Summertime Killer (also known as Target Removed) starts hot. A young boy watches in horror as four ruthless mobsters brutally beat his father to death. Fast forward twenty years, and that little boy is Raymond Sullivan Castor (Christopher Mitchum), all grown up and running a cold, calculated campaign of retribution. He’s already systematically eliminated […]
The 1970s New York film scene was a magical, grimy sandbox. If you ever needed proof that the line between high art, avant-garde theater, and pure exploitation was completely non-existent back then, look no further than Theodore Gershuny’s Sugar Cookies (also known by the arguably sleazier title, Love Me My Way). Just look at the […]
When Roger Corman got New World Pictures running, he hired Stephanie Rothman — who had been working for him since 1964 as his assistant — to write and direct its second film. Rothman had no idea what an exploitation movie was until she saw a review that called her movie one. She said to Interview, “I […]
Issue 33 of THE PHYSICAL MEDIA ADVOCATE has hit the digital stands, so all fans of film, TV, and physical media, GO GO GO and buy your copy today because #HOOPTOBER is upon us! Currently available at Amazon and later this month at select retailers, the latest issue of your favorite magazine is jam packed […]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Randy Victor Ian helps cover the Japanese roman porno beat for B&S About Movies. If you haven’t yet learned about the true-life story of celebrity murderess Sada Abe, give director Noboru Tanaka’s roman porno A Woman Called Sada Abe a watch to start your journey down a bizarre rabbit hole. Junko Miyashita […]
Week 12 (Sept 6 – 12) – Japanese V- Cinema: V-Cinema is shorthand for the Japanese direct-to-video wave of the 90s and 00s. These movies were often produced by major studios on very low budgets, but they allowed the filmmakers a great deal of creative freedom as long as they could deliver the “exploitable elements.” This proved […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Salvage 1 was on the CBS Late Movie on June 15, 1984. Originally airing on January 20, 1979, the pilot called Salvage debuted to high ratings — and was brought to us by Harve Bennett, who previously gave us The Six Million Dollar Man. It was an intriguing start to a series. Harry Broderick (Andy Griffith) and […]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Randy Victor Ian helps cover the Japanese roman porno beat for B&S About Movies. Horror meets roman porno in director Noboru Tanaka’s The Watcher in the Attic, an adaptation of a short story written by Edogawa Ranpo AKA Edogawa Rampo, often described as “the Edgar Allan Poe of Japan” as evidenced by […]
Super Cool. Super Quick. Super Deadly. Cooler Than Bond! Quicker Than Fly! Deadlier Than Shaft! His Lethal Body, A Masterpiece in Motion. Released in Hong Kong as Lie ri kuang feng and worldwide as The Stormy Sun, Super Man Chu is set in rural China during the post-imperial era of the 1910s and 1920s and […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ruckus was on the CBS Late Movie on January 27, 1984 and January 3 and May 22, 1986. Ruckus arrives at the end of the 1970s, a time when The Dukes of Hazzard and Smokey and the Bandit led a redneck renaissance in pop culture. Kyle Hanson (Dirk Benedict, Body Slam) spent eight months as a […]
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