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.
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: If I’ve learned anything from Cathy’s Curse, it’s that when someone in Canada gets possessed, they just get rude and swear a lot. This movie—no relation to Prom Night—only […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Death Stalk was on the CBS Late Movie on November 22, 1976 and November 24, 1977. I write a lot about how old TV was the unknown. TV Guide could prepare you for a program, but sometimes movies blow your mind, and you’re in no way ready. This led to kindertrauma of the […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: After Halloween producer Irwin Yablans rejected his pitch, director Paul Lynch ran with the idea of setting his film during a holiday. A prom seemed like a big event, and […]
Week 14 (Sept. 20 – 26) – THE END! Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: Make sure to pull the ladder up on the way out Do you think Cirio H. Santiago ever got tired of making post-apocalyptic movies? As a spiritual successor to Equalizer 2000—it has the same star, director, and dystopian DNA—Raiders of the Sun may not have an […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Darker Side of Terror was on the CBS Late Movie on January 16, 1981. What happens when you create the world’s first perfect human… and he turns out to be your wife’s perfect lover? The Darker Side of Terror — shot as Clone: The Man Who Gave Birth to Himself — was […]
If you read the pitch for James Mangold’s 2003 psychological thriller, you’d be forgiven for rolling your eyes. Ten strangers stranded at a dreary Nevada motel during a torrential downpour? A killer picking them off one by one, counting down by room keys? It sounds like the most mothballed, bargain-bin Agatha Christie homage imaginable, like […]
Cinematic adaptations of whimsical animal literature follow an unspoken rule: keep the stakes low, the puns high, and let the humans chew the scenery while the CGI critters dance. But Craig Mazin’s script for The Sheep Detectives—adapted from Leonie Swann’s 2005 novel Three Bags Full—refuses to play it safe. It is a mystery comedy that […]
What if an indie walking simulator game, set in a sterile Japanese subway hallway, became an exploration of existential dread, domestic panic and impending fatherhood? Video game adaptations often fall into one of two camps. They either cling too tightly to every button prompt and fan service moment until the narrative is stifled. Or worse, […]
A wry, hallucinatory, and sardonic Italian-style dark comedy that mixes sex, paranoia and mid-century swagger, made in a place where Rome was in the mod 60s, scored by a jazzy Armando Trovajoli, all mixed up to show one man going insane when he thinks his wife is stepping out on him. Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli, […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: Directed, written, photographed, and edited by auteur Don Coscarelli, the original Phantasm makes much more sense if viewed less as a linear film and more as a collection of imagery, a […]
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