Born to Be (2019)
Dr. Jess Ting is part of the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City. There, for the first time ever, all transgender and gender non-conforming people have access to high-quality transition-related health and surgical care and often, this work is covered for the very first time by insurance. Tania Cypriano […]
Drag Strip Girl (1957)
One of American-International Pictures first winners was this movie, released as a double feature with Rock All Night. It has Fay Spain in the title role, in a story that would pretty much be recycled as Motorcycle Gang along with cast members John Ashley (this was his first movie) and Steve Terrell. Ashley had never acted […]
Checkered Flag or Crash (1977)
If it looks like a low-budget Drive-In potboiler and plays like a low-budget Drive-In potboiler . . . Hey, be nice! This isn’t a duck . . . this a Paul Heller and Fred Weintraub production backed by Universal Studios! Come on, now, you VHS packrats. You know your Weintraub-Heller oeuvres by now. Fred and […]
Deadline Auto Theft, aka Gone in Sixty Seconds III (1983)
This second and final film in H. B. “Toby” Halicki’s Gone in 60 Seconds trilogy is a meta-fiction piecemeal effort that incorporates the opening chase scene from The Junkman (aka Gone in 60 Seconds II), which chronicled the making of a car chase picture; thus Deadline Auto Theft is the “movie” that was being made […]
Interview with Quinn Armstrong, writer and director of Survival Skills
We raved about Survival Skills a few weeks ago, a movie that combines a 1980’s VCR-era training guide with a dark ride into the soul of a police officer not properly armed when it comes to facing off with an uncaring society. Quinn Armstrong, the writer and director of the film was kind enough to sit […]
The Junkman, aka Gone In Sixty Seconds II (1982)
H.B. “Toby” Halicki, the director of 1974’s Gone in 60 Seconds fame, wrote, directed, produced, and stars in this second installment of his Gone in 60 Seconds trilogy — a meta-film that presents that 1974 drive-in blockbuster as a film-within-a-film alongside the filming of Halicki’s “new film,” which is Deadline Auto Theft. The Junkman and Deadline […]
Double Nickels (1977)
Editor’s Update: We’ve recently learned this car-crashin’ classic will receive a hard media reissue via Dark Force Entertainment. Learn more with their January 2022 Facebook post. While it’s not an official sequel, car aficionados and ’70s drive-in connoisseurs consider this rebel-rousing Smokey and the Bandit ripoff as a “sequel” to 1974’s Gone in 60 Seconds, […]
Gone in Sixty Seconds (1974)
Editor’s Note: All this week, from Sunday, December 6 to Saturday, December 12 we’re featuring car flicks. Welcome to our “Fast and Furious Week II” of reviews. When the commercials ran on television for this . . . oh, man, we, the wee-little middle schoolers freaked out. Everyone in my class went to the drive-in […]
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