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.
Following the global devastation of the Robot Wars, the remnants of humanity fled Earth to establish New Washington, a domed city on the Moon. Society here is fragile, entirely dependent on Raddic-Q2, an essential anti-radiation miracle drug mined exclusively on the distant planet Delta 3. Enter Omus (Jack Palance), a scenery-chewing cyborg-controlling tyrant who overthrows […]
A hypocritical, sleazy evangelist named Preacher Fallows (Bill Rogers) rolls into a sleepy, tight-knit community preaching righteousness while practicing anything but. He sets his sights on Emily (Lee Holland), the local small-town free spirit labeled by the judgmental locals as a shanty tramp. Fallows assumes he can easily add her to his list of conquests, […]
Pretty Peaches 2 was directed by Alex de Renzy, a pioneering documentary and adult filmmaker whose career spanned from the counterculture 1970s well into the digital era. At times, it seems like he treated adult cinema with actual cinematic composition, often shooting with widescreen framing and narrative pacing that mirrored mainstream studio sex comedies. Young […]
In this episode, Adam and Sam leave no crumbs as they discuss George Barry’s fairy tale film Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. You can listen to the show anywhere you find podcasts, including Spreaker and Spotify. Email us at nightmareusapod@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @nightmareusapod Follow Adam on Letterboxd: @ashursey Follow Sam on Letterboxd: @bandsaboutmovie Visit Sam’s site B […]
Wealthy diamond merchant Sir Cyril Landau (Patrick Macnee) gets an unusual visitor: a motor mechanic named Oliver Shadey (Antony Sher). Shadey has a very specific proposition—he wants £25,000 for a sex change operation, and in exchange, he’s willing to trade his rare psychic skill. His talent? The ability to mentally view remote locations and record […]
If you dig deep enough into the trenches of exploitation movies, you eventually find yourself watching Filipino action cinema. Directed by the prolific Teddy Page (working under his own name alongside his Teddy Chiu moniker), Fireback is a relentless blast of custom weaponry, wild pacing and pure cinematic adrenaline. The narrative kicks off in the […]
Week 7 (Aug 2 – 8) – Muscle Distribution Catalog Muscle Distribution is an exciting new venture that’s hard to sum up with words alone, but if you dig into the catalog, you find a shape that’s more well-defined than any mission statement. Liz is keeping it hot for us. From Muscle’s website: Muscle is a new film distribution […]
Also known as Dragon and the Cobra — perhaps to cash in on Williamson playing Black Cobra? — this was released as a Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video title, and man, that back title alone makes me lose consciousness. Maybe that’s Sybil using Dim Mak on me. Adolph Caesar — the man whose voice told us “A […]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 90% of 199 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.4/10. The website’s consensus reads: “A classic haunted house story enriched with atmospheric folklore and perfectly-timed shocks, Hokum further solidifies writer-director Damian McCarthy as a modern master of horror.” For fuck’s sake. Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) […]
Woodsboro always finds a way to bring people back. This time, Scream 7 brings back franchise architect Kevin Williamson, back in the director’s chair alongside co-writer Guy Busick. This seventh installment leans heavily into its rich history while building a brand-new chapter for our ultimate final girl, bringing back the genre icons we grew up […]
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