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 Woman Who Wouldn’t Die was on the CBS Late Movie on March 12 and June 16, 1975. Killing your spouse is a plot as old as plots themselves and an astonishingly foolish choice in real life. But whether it’s for cash, misplaced rage or sheer stupidity, characters on screen keep right on trying. While it’s […]
Week 12 (Sept 6 – 12) – Japanese V- Cinema: V-Cinema is shorthand for the Japanese direct-to-video wave of the 90s and 00s. These movies were often produced by major studios on very low budgets, but they allowed the filmmakers a great deal of creative freedom as long as they could deliver the “exploitable elements.” This proved […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Strange and Deadly Occurrence was on the CBS Late Movie on February 11, 1976. Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey from a script by Sandor Stern (who wrote the script for the original The Amityville Horror and directed and wrote one of my favorite films, Pin) and Lane Slate, the verbose title of this mildly spooky […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Jigsaw Man was on the CBS Late Movie on May 30, 1988. What happens when you take the real-life Cold War betrayal of Kim Philby, toss in a troubled production that nearly bankrupted half of Ireland, reunite the two heavyweights of 1972’s Sleuth and direct the whole affair with all the breathless momentum of a […]
If your local dairy delivery started doubling as a monkey’s paw for suburban housewives, you’d probably want to check the fine print on the carton. “The Milkman Cometh” takes a quaint, mid-century relic—the doorstep milk box—and turns it into an ominous portal for temptation, proving that middle-class malaise is a much more dangerous domestic hazard […]
Week 12 (Sept 6 – 12) – Japanese V- Cinema: V-Cinema is shorthand for the Japanese direct-to-video wave of the 90s and 00s. These movies were often produced by major studios on very low budgets, but they allowed the filmmakers a great deal of creative freedom as long as they could deliver the “exploitable elements.” This proved […]
Thanks to Klon for introducing me to Maverick Entertainment. One of the most overlooked and consistent low-budget film companies of the 21st century, they’ve been full steam ahead in the streaming era while other indies have cratered. From the Maverick Entertainment Group website: Founded in 1997, Maverick continues to be a leading distributor and producer […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Georgia Peaches was on the CBS Late Movie on September 23, 1980. CBS was like, we have The Dukes of Hazzard at home, but nothing succeeds like success. So who better to make another Southern fried car-based TV show that Roger Corman, who’d been doing that for more than two decades by this point? Produced […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Starman was on the CBS Late Movie on February 23, 1990. If you know director John Carpenter only as the undisputed king of synth-laden horror and gritty urban chaos, Starman proves just how versatile the man behind the camera really was. Steering away from pure terror to craft an intimate, cross-country romance, Carpenter delivered a […]
Week 12 (Sept 6 – 12) – Japanese V- Cinema: V-Cinema is shorthand for the Japanese direct-to-video wave of the 90s and 00s. These movies were often produced by major studios on very low budgets, but they gave filmmakers huge creative freedom as long as they could deliver the “exploitable elements.” This proved to be a great […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.