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.
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 […]
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 […]
Scarecrow Video isn’t just a video store. It’s a landmark for all we love about movies. Each year, they do a month-long challenge to get people to stretch out and watch some movies they’ve never seen before. Check out my lists for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. This is the ninth […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Family Sins was on the CBS Late Movie on April 21, 1988. Directed by Jerrold Freedman (who used the Alan Smithee alias to direct The O.J. Simpson Story; he also directed the Bronson movie Borderline and Kansas City Bomber), written by George Rubino (Rage!, The Last Tenant) and originally broadcast on October 25, 1987, on CBS, […]
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! Man, Timothy Carey. He started off in Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole and became known for his roles in two Stanley […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Phantom of the Opera was on the CBS Late Movie on October 18, 1985. Long before Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 musical cemented the story as a sweeping romantic melodrama, television producer Robert Halmi produced this unique adaptation. Translocating the classic Gaston Leroux narrative from turn-of-the-century Paris to Budapest, this 1983 television movie stands as one of […]
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