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 Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block, Forbidden Planet is a movie that is forever in the zeitgeist of what 1950s American science fiction looked like. It’s also the first movie to show hyperspeed travel, to feature a […]
Bobby Sweet is a country music legend and the world-renowned face of the Sweet Meats restaurant chain, which he established with his wife back in 1978. The film opens with a framing interview in which Bobby is interviewed by Kerry Swallows (Kaitlin Stephens Guenther), teasing the dark secret behind the restaurant’s meteoric success. The narrative […]
Directed and written by Nick Castle — and also known as Kiss Me, Kill Me, and Everybody Gets It in the End — this movie starts by taking a page out of The 10th Victim, as a group of college kids plays secret agent with dart guns in a LARP game where two people are assigned to […]
Reanimator Academy (1992): Edgar Allan Lovecraft (Steve Westerheit) is the brainy outcast of the hard-partying Delta Epsilon Delta Fraternity, and now, he’s invented — you guessed it — a reanimator formula. In the video store era, the box art and title were all you needed. So if you combine video rental favorites Police Academy and Re-Animator, […]
It is Christmas Eve and a comfortable suburban household is bubbling over with holiday friction. Parents are trying to enforce a traditional, old-fashioned holiday, complete with classic family time, while cynical kids Jimbo (Sky Berdahl) and Stefa (Jenna von Oÿ) are having none of it, defiantly declaring that they don’t believe in Santa Claus. Seeking […]
Week 10 (Aug 23 – 29) – Mill Creek’s Mausoleum of Mumblegore: The indie wing of low-budget horror or the horror wing of low-budget indie. “Rule number one: embrace the darkness. Rule number two: kill your fear. And rule number three: live for death.” Goth, directed by Brad Sykes, dives headfirst into the PVC-slathered, synth-pounding depths of the […]
This episode, ride with me back to the thrilling days of yesterday with Mannaja, And God Said to Cain, The Price of Power, Django the Bastard and Django Kill…If You Live, Shoot! You can listen to the show on Spotify. The show is also available on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Podcasts, Podchaser and Google Podcasts […]
What happens when you mix a planeload of high-fashion models, a slick art director, a multi-million-dollar cartel drug deal, and the steamy depths of the South American jungle? You get Jungle Warriors, an ambitious international action-thriller directed by German filmmaker Ernst R. Von Theumer. While it shares DNA with the rough-and-tumble exploitation cinema of its […]
Week 10 (Aug 23 – 29) – Mill Creek’s Mausoleum of Mumblegore: The indie wing of low-budget horror or the horror wing of low-budget indie. pd187, who made this list, said “one of the only movies about cryptids/folkloric beings that “gets it.”” Wendigo serves as the second entry in writer-director Larry Fessenden’s thematic trilogy updating classic monster myths […]
Directed by television and genre veteran Ted Post (The Baby), this sun-baked Phoenix thriller sits in a fascinating middle ground—too stylish and dark for standard network television, yet abruptly dumped onto NBC as a Movie of the Week before finding a strange second life on home video via notorious British distributors like VIPCO. Far from […]
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