New Year’s Eve on Gamma 1 (Or a review of War of the Planets from 1966)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John A. Frazier is absolutely crazy about the movies. In fact, he has been known to go crazy at the movies, too. It’s New Year’s Eve and on the Gamma 1 space station the party is in full swing. There’s a “Space Spectacular” wherein Commander Michael Halstead’s crew take to the stars in […]
Jake Speed (1986)
When her sister is kidnapped by a gang of white slavers, Margaret (Karen Kopins, Troop Beverly Hills, Once Bitten) knows she needs a hero to save the day. That becomes Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford, who wrote the script and also appeared in Barracuda and Valley Girl, another film he produced and fought the studio to keep Martha Coolidge […]
2019: After the Fall of New York: A Second Look at the Film and the Life and Career of Michael Sopkiw
Dude, sometimes those stars align. The conjunction of B&S Movies’ recent “Star Wars Week,” our current “Ape Week,” and our upcoming “Shark Week” colliding with the calendar fade in this year of our Lord of 2019 leaves this writer with a morbid disappointment: the Italian-predicted post-apocalypse never happened. (Yes. Mr. Michael Sopkiw. This is your […]
Ape Week: Revenge from Planet Ape: The Spanish “Planet of the Apes” (1978)
“You know, the Templars’ burnt, eyeless and noseless, sunken-skulled faces sure do look like monkeys,” cigar chomps the cheesy American film distributor. “That gives me an idea. . . .” “Legend has it, almost 3,000 years ago, a simian civilization of super-intelligent apes struggled with man to gain control of this planet. In the end, […]
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
I’m really emotional about the town that I come from, Pittsburgh. When people talk down on it or proclaim how they can’t wait to get out of here, I get upset. There’s nothing like this city to me and nowhere I go in the rest of this world can really measure up. A Rick Sebak […]
Ape Week: Planet of the Apes: The Five Telefilms from the 1974 Series (1981)
B&S Movies’ readers are already up to speed on everything ape, with the franchise’s production minutiae readily available—if you want it. But here are the basics that led to the post-Star Wars POTA movies: As result of the first four films’ box office returns—it was the Star Wars of its day—Arthur P. Jacobs, the producer […]
The Addams Family (2019)
Conrad Vernon started his career as a storyboard artist on Cool World but may be best known as creating and voicing the Gingerbread Man from the Shrek movies. He also co-directed Sausage Party before starting work on this reboot of Addams, who you may remember from the Charles Addams newspaper strips (which started all the way back […]
Ape Week: Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Paul Dehn wrote every one of the original Apes films, but after providing the story idea, an illness made him leave the project. John William and Joyce Hooper Corrington (The Omega Man) came in to write the movie, despite never seeing any of the previous films. Dehn was unavailable for the initial rewrites, but was […]
Hustlers (2019)
Hustlers is based on the New York magazine’s 2015 article “The Hustlers at Scores: The Ex-Strippers Who Stole From (Mostly) Rich Men and Gave to, Well, Themselves” by Jessica Pressler. It confirms to me what I’ve always known about men’s clubs. The men think they run the world, but they have little to no power at […]
Judy (2019)
I’ve been reading a lot about the deaths of beloved stars. Like Elvis, who struggling through his final concerts while raving in a mania about killing the karate instructor who he thought stole Priscilla from him to the point he had to be drugged into incoherence before dying from quite possibly overstraining himself on the […]
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