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.
Week 14 (Sept. 20 – 26) – THE END! Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: Make sure to pull the ladder up on the way out “London 2008. After forty days and nights of torrential rain, the city is largely submerged, a result of the devastating effects of continued global warming. The warnings ignored for decades have now resulted in undreamed-of […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: 43: The Richard Petty Story was on the CBS Late Movie on May 13, 1987. When this biopic about NASCAR’s winningest driver was made, stock-car racing hadn’t yet vaulted from regional popularity in the South to nationwide notoriety. Races didn’t find their way to national television until a few years later, so that […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The $5.20 an Hour Dream was on the CBS Late Movie on May 11 and August 22, 1983; May 17 and December 26, 1984 and March 28, 1985. This is a gritty, ripped-from-the-headlines socio-economic morality play disguised as primetime entertainment, taking a hard look at inflation, blue-collar survival, and the entrenched boys’ club […]
Week 13 (Sept 13 – 19) – Cult Movies: Oh, you thought I meant the other kind of cult movies? Sacrifices to the gods of entertainment must be made, so hop up on the altar! Released after the book became an international bestseller, Servants of Twilight brings Dean Koontz’s 1984 novel (originally written under the pseudonym Leigh […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Endless Love was on the CBS Late Movie on September 10, 1987 and February 24 and June 8, 1988. Sometimes, the CBS Late Movie plays obscure movies, foreign films, made-for-TV movies and all manner of films that seemed like they snuck onto a major network. Then there was Endless Love, which felt like […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Wind was on the CBS Late Movie on December 21, 1988. Nico Mastorakis has a pretty good resume filled with VHS rental faves, including Island of Death, The Greek Tycoon (ironically, when he was a reporter, he went underground as a musician for the popular singer Yanni Poulopoulos and invaded Aristotle Onassis’ yacht, the Christina, where the […]
If there’s one thing TV anthology shows taught us in the 1980s, it’s that being a hack writer is a fast track to supernatural doom. Enter Peter Prentice, played with an absolute masterclass in smarmy, large-ham sleaziness by Kenickie himself, Jeff Conaway. Peter is talentless, deeply selfish and entirely open about why he writes horror. […]
Week 13 (Sept 13 – 19) – Cult Movies: Oh, you thought I meant the other kind of cult movies? Sacrifices to the gods of entertainment must be made, so hop up on the altar! Raw, unapologetically queer and fueled by the kind of DIY adrenaline that only a teenage auteur working with zero budget can conjure, […]
This time, we’re talking rip-offs. Robowar, Lady Terminator, Idu Saadhya (Bollywood Stagefright), Blue Island, Paradisio Blu and Blue Tornado. But it’s also about Harlan Ellison vs. James Cameron, Ricky Schroder going to Point Dume and watching a Satanic orgy ritual sacrifice on video, the heel turn of Willie Aames and Scott Baio, misquoting Lucio Fulci […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Blind Date was on the CBS Late Movie on August 15, 1988. “The ultimate high tech thriller,” this Nico Mastorakis-directed movie — he also wrote it with his regular script partner, Fred Perry — gets one part of the Giallo genre right: its science is absolute bullshit. Jonathan Ratcliff (Joseph Bottoms) is an ad exec working […]
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