Sixteen Candles (1984)
Sixteen Candles was the directing debut of John Hughes. He wrote this film after asking his agent for headshots of young actresses and was so inspired by Molly Ringwald’s photo that he put it over his desk and wrote this movie over a weekend just for her. Filmed primarily in and around the Chicago North […]
REPOST: The Dragon Lives Again (1977)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: I just had to include this movie in James Bond month, because it’s the only film I’ve seen where Bruce Lee fights 007 in Hell. It originally appeared on our site in April of 2019. You’ve got to love the balls of the people who made this movie, starting it with the words, […]
The Impossible Kid (1982)
After For Your Height Only, Weng Weng had another James Bond movie in him. He’s Agent 00, working for INTERPOL and battling extortionists. The main villain? Mr. X, who kind of looks like a Klansman, if Klansmen wore socks on their heads. For some reason, Weng Weng wears a white Saturday Night Fever suit through most of […]
Blood Hunters: Rise of the Hybrids (2020)
If you’re a regular surfer at B&S About Movies, you’re familiar with our perpetual droning about Philippine cinema—especially post-apocalyptic Philippine movies. Oh, how we’ve gone on and one, ad nauseam, about the films of Eddie Romero (Mad Doctor of Blood Island), Willy Milan (W is War), and Cirio H. Santiago (The Sisterhood). Yeah, we may […]
For Your Height Only (1981)
Ernesto dela Cruz was born in poverty and with primordial dwarfism and underdeveloped intellectual capacities. However, despite his start, he fell in love with martial arts. As he was working with a stunt team, he was noticed by actor and producer Peter Caballes. Working with his wife Cora, they would play the roles of his […]
No. 1 of the Secret Service (1977)
In 1977, there hadn’t been a James Bond film since 1974’s The Man with the Golden Gun. After the film’s release, producers Saltzman and Broccoli dissolved their relationship, with Saltzman selling his stake in Eon Productions’s parent company, Danjaq, LLC, to United Artists. There was also the possibility that there would be two different Bond franchises, […]
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The fourth and final Bond film directed by Guy Hamilton, The Man with the Golden Gun is everything that was 1974: oil crisises and martial arts films. It was seen by some — at the time — as a low point in the series. And it also marks the last Bond film co-produced by Albert R. […]
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