Angry Asian Murder Hornets (2020)
Filmed in less than 2 weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic, Angry Asian Murder Hornets has just one more way that last year could have been the worst in our lifetime: yes, murder hornets getting into Chinese nuclear product. The thing I loved best about this movie was that the first five minutes feel like a […]
EXPLORING: Pittsburgh Giallo
The other night, while we were watching The Majorettes on the Groovy Doom Drive-In Double Feature, I was struck by a strange idea. “Do you think this is a giallo?” my co-host Bill asked me. This is a regular occurrence, as I often see the yellow-tinged edges of the traditionally Italian psychosexual film genre — inspired […]
E Poi Lo Chiamarono il Magnifico (1972)
Man of the East is a vehicle for Terence Hill, directed by Enzo Barboni and written by E.B. Clucher*. Barboni had tremendous success parodying the Italian western genre, starting with They Call Me Trinity and then following that with the even bigger Trinity Is STILL My Name! These movies follow a pretty simple formula of Hill […]
Scream Greats, Vol. 2: Satanism and Witchcraft (1986)
The first Scream Greats may have been about Tom Savini, but the second Fangoria VHS documentary release suddenly remembered that it was being released in the dead heart of the Satanic Panic. Of course, Ed and Lorraine Warren show up to warn everyone watching this that the world was in a constant battle with demons. Of course, […]
B-Movie Blast: The Road to Nashville (1967)
Back in the day, the concert industry wasn’t a Live Nation money pit. And there was no MTV. There wasn’t even a Midnight Special. Or a Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert. Or ABC-TV’s In Concert, produced by Don (read our “Exploring: The Movies of Don Kirshner” feature for more on Don’s TV and film exploits). No, […]
Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters and Ricky Jay (1996)
Ricky Jay was one of my heroes. Beyond acting, writing books and being one of the best sleight of hand men ever, no one else was more devoted to capturing the history of magic than him. Jay did not have a great childhood, said that possibly the only kind memory he had of his parents […]
B-Movie Blast: The Young Graduates (1971)
Sam, the Chief Cook and Bottle Washer and Mix Master of Movie Themed Drink for B&S About Movies, is scary-psychic when it comes to my writing assignments. I don’t recall Dennis Christopher and Bruno Kirby ever popping up in conversation . . . Sam, how do you do it? It’s like my head is a […]
B-Movie Blast: The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
Why am I remembering this Canadian-made political thriller from Crown International Pictures as, not a theatrically-run film, but as a U.S. network TV movie? Yeah, I remember watching this William Shatner and Hal Holbrook effort on HBO at one point. . . . Perhaps it’s because director George Mardeluk worked primarily in television throughout the […]
B-Movie Blast: Liar’s Moon (1981)
And it all began — not just for Matt Dillon, but for all of us — with the greatest, modern juvenile delinquency film of all time: Over the Edge (1979), another one of those poorly-distributed, lost films that found a cult audience on HBO. Needless to say, the girls loved Matt. And, between my sister […]
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