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.
BONUS! Watch a Roger Corman movie to celebrate his 100th birthday! Was Roger Corman in the David Carradine business? Because almost every movie in the 80s and 90s by either person seems connected. And hey, why pay for new footage when you can just dig up old Corman cinematic corpses, dust them off and drop […]
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again set up a fundraiser for Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and providing them with happy homes. Today’s theme: When Nature Attacks Unlike features that hide their […]
1. HUNTING SEASON IS OPEN!: This season’s opener will have some kind of seeking, stalking, tracking or trapping, you know… hunting! Tally ho! If your only frame of reference for America’s favorite fictional small-town sheriff is Mayberry’s gentle, homespun wisdom, watching 1974’s Savages is like finding out Uncle Bee moonlights as a syndicate hitman. Months […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Monster of Pedras Blancas was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 23, 1965 at 1:00 a.m.; Saturday, September 23, 1967 at 11:30 p.m. and Saturday, June 8, 1968 at 11:20 p.m. Irvin Berwick and Jack Kevan were nobodies at Universal. Kevan hated working for makeup department boss Bud Westmore, who took all […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Warhead was on the CBS Late Movie on August 24, 1977 and May 11, 1978 as Prisoner in the Middle. Warhead (also known as Prisoner in the Middle, Sabra Command and Mission Overkill) is a 1977 geopolitical drama shot in Israel back in 1973. It was directed by John O’Connor in his sole […]
“…and Satan smiled.” That’s how this movie ends. Honestly, if Satan were sitting through this, he really would smile because he’d know he was about to get another soul who died of pure, unadulterated boredom. Released by Harry Novak’s Boxoffice International Pictures, A Taste of Hell feels like a massive identity crisis. Novak usually traffics […]
Sir Donovan (Gualtiero Isnenghi) learns that a tribe in Kenya has a white woman, Tarzana (Femi Benussi, Bloody Pit of Horror, So Sweet, So Dead), whom he believes is his granddaughter, Elizabeth. Somehow, she has survived the airplane crash that her parents died in over the African jungle. The rich elderly man and his niece, Doris […]
When: Saturday at 8 PM EDT Where and how to watch: Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels. Just click on those channels and watch the show. We have three segments: the intro, then you watch the movie either on physical media or the links we provide. Then we’ll go back in around 2 hours and do the […]
Directed by and starring Yuen Cheung-Yan, this serves as the spiritual (and sort of) third entry in the legendary Miracle Fighters series. Operating under the powerhouse Yuen Clan banner—the cinematic bloodline of patriarch Yuen Siu-Tien (Jackie Chan’s beloved master in Drunken Master)—the film operates entirely on Looney Tunes logic. Physics are treated as polite suggestions, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden was on the CBS Late Movie on September 8, 1982. Based on the novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg, this was directed by Anthony Page (Absolution, Chernobyl: The Final Warning) and written by Gavin Lambert and Lewis John Carlino (Where Have All […]
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