Nightfire (2020)
What a happy, accidental discovery—considering B&S About Movies is in the midst of its “James Bond Month” extravaganza. Filmed in the popular cinematic location of Verona, Italy, one of the locations for the 2008 James Bond entry, Quantum of Solace, Nightfire is a timely story about the plight of the Ukrainian people and the United […]
Our Man Flint: Dead On Target (1976)
Originally airing March 17, 1976 on ABC, this forgotten third Derek Flint movie sadly deserves to be that way. A pilot for a weekly series, luckily it wasn’t picked up, if the quality of this effort was to be any indication of how bad the show would be. Dead On Target indeed. Ray Danton — who became a director for […]
DRIVE-IN FRIDAY: Sean Mitus
EDITOR’S NOTE: Thanks to Sean Mitus for sharing his drive-in night. He’s a big fan of the Mahoning Drive-In, so it was great to have him share these with us. MOVIE 1: Bay of Blood (1971, Mario Bava): Bay of Blood is the often-imitated Bava proto-slasher often imitated (spear through the couple in bed scene stolen for F13, […]
Dear Guest (2020)
I’ve long since surpassed my Hollywood-mainstream film attendances with my affection for the new breed cultivated in film festivals: I love going to film festivals, seeing short films, and acting in short films: the camaraderie of the indie environs is pure electric. It’s oxygen. It’s life. I got my start in the entertainment industry by […]
Goldfinger (1964)
If From Russia With Love was big, Goldfinger is the Bond movie that nearly everyone sees as the greatest success in the series. With the court case between Kevin McClory and Fleming surrounding Thunderball still in the High Court — more on that this week — producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman picked this story as […]
LSD Flesh of the Devil (1967)
ECHO and Mr. X want to take over the world with LSD. LSD is back, people. It’s bad! To get to that part of the story, we have to go back to when our hero, Rex Miller (Guy Madison, TV’s Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok) used a toy car and a blow gun to kill two […]
Danger!! Death Ray (1967)
Also known as Il Raggio Infernale (The Infernal Ray), Nest of Spies and Death Ray, this Italian espionage film was directed by Gianfranco Baldanello, who bounced around grenres, creating Spaghetti Westerns like Long Days of Hare and Colt in the Hand of the Devil, as well as the Bond-sounding Zorro movie Man with the Golden Winchester and the […]
In Like Flint (1967)
This film, along with Caprice, marks the end of an era. They were the final movies to be CinemaScope, as Fox would move on to Panavision. 1967 was the end of many eras. And this film reflects it, as instead of men continuing to run the world, In Like Flint features an international feminist matriarchy that conspires […]
EXPLORING: Bond girls in giallo films
The world of the giallo — and of James Bond — is filled with violence and gorgeous women. So it’s really no wonder that there’s some level of crossover between the actresses in the films. Ursula Andress: The original Bond girl, Andress wowed audiences as Honey Ryder, emerging from the water with a bikini and a […]
From Russia With Love (1963)
Was this movie a success? Well, it made $78 million on a $2 million dollar budget, which would be like $661 million in today’s money. Yeah. This is the very definition of success. United Artists had doubled the budget available of Dr. No, which allowed them to film on location for the first time. There […]
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