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.
Directed by Madeleine Hicks, this is the story of Elaine (Clara Vance). She’s teetering on the edge of thirty, living in a world that’s suffocating under the weight of total environmental collapse. More than right now, that is. Oxygen is a luxury, and humanity is dying. The government solution is a medical procedure that repurposes […]
Directed and written by Michael Fausti, Angel Lust plunges headfirst into a dark, romantic labyrinth where history, mortality and unyielding passion collide. The film opens in the cold shadows of 1782, where Ophelia Danube (Roe Haven) suffers execution for the ultimate crime of defying the rigid moral codes of her society. But death is far […]
Influencer culture is the new slash-and-burn territory for horror, providing many victims in movies today. It’s the perfect target—vain, desperate, and begging to be offed. Alexander Boyd Watson’s Demonetize takes that premise and runs it through a meat grinder. A washed-up paranormal investigator, Martin (Sean Carrigan), is desperate to reclaim his glory days. He figures […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 39 Steps was on the CBS Late Movie on March 16, 1973; April 29, 1974; Based on The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, this is the story of Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), an ordinary man who is somehow caught up in the evil deeds of spies who call themselves The 39 Steps. They’re stealing […]
Shot in Hollywood, Florida, this tale of Stanley (Wayne Crawford, under the name Scott Lawrence; he also wrote Valley Girl, Barracuda and Jake Speed) and Paul (Abe Zwick in his lone acting role) begins after they escape from Baltimore and go on the lam. Paul begins to dress in drag and act as Stanley’s Aunt Martha while falling […]
Week 11 (Aug 30 – Sept 5) – Lost in the Static: SOV Horror Directed by Women: I dunno about you, but I wanna see more ladies directing gory, fucked-up SOV horror! Obviously this isn’t everything that’s out there, it’s just the ones discussed in Rachel Herb-Neterer’s book “Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Randy Victor Ian helps cover the Japanese roman porno beat for B&S About Movies. Director Tatsumi Kumashiro’s Lovers Are Wet is a more dramatic entry in the roman porno genre, following drifter Katsu’s (Toru Ohe) return to his hometown, where he vehemently denies who he is to those who remember him well. He […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Randy Victor Ian helps cover the Japanese roman porno beat for B&S About Movies. You know you’re in for a roman porno that has more lighthearted moments than usual when the opening scene involves oversized sausages on a pile of spaghetti. Don’t get too comfortable, though, as director Noboru Tanaka’s Night of the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Assassin was on the CBS Late Movie on June 2, 1989. Henry Stanton (Robert Conrad, try to knock a battery off his shoulder ) is a retired agent from an intelligence agency not to be named who is brought back in when a top-secret robot named Robert Golem (Richard Young, the man who gave Indiana Jones his […]
Week 11 (Aug 30 – Sept 5) – Lost in the Static: SOV Horror Directed by Women: I dunno about you, but I wanna see more ladies directing gory, fucked-up SOV horror! Obviously this isn’t everything that’s out there, it’s just the ones discussed in Rachel Herb-Neterer’s book “Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video […]
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