Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969), aka Cult of the Damned (1970)
Poet, novelist, playwright and screenwriter Robert Thom is someone the B&S About Movies crowd knows best for Roger Corman’s quest to beat Rollerball to the theaters, with an adaptation (which Charles B. Griffith* doctored) of Ib Melchoir’s short story “The Racer” as Death Race 2000 (1975). Thom’s Hollywood (or is that Hollyweird) resume goes back […]
John Travolto… da un insolito destino (1979)
John Travolta…By an Unusual Fate* is the translation of this title, but you may also have heard it called The Face with Two Left Feet. It was written and directed by Neri Parenti, whose main claim to fame is making cinepanettoni, which are comedy films that are screened during the Christmas season. He was joined by Massimo […]
Zachariah (1971)
“The first electric Western” is the kind of movie that could have only have come out in 1971. How else do you explain a musical Western that is based on Hermann Hesse’s novels Siddhartha and Narcissus and Goldmund that stars — and has music by — the James Gang (featuring Joe Walsh, playing Job Cain’s […]
Rock ‘N Roll Cop (1994)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Upton is an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor in London. A member of the Society of Authors, she currently works as a ghostwriter of personal memoirs for Story Terrace London and writes for several blogs on topics as diverse as film history, punk rock, women’s issues, and international politics. For links to her work, […]
The Beatles: Influence on Film 1
This is the first in a three-part series. We are discovering 33 films in the series, with 11 films each over the next three days — at 3 PM — as part of our third “Rock ‘n’ Roll Week” installment. As we developed this third “Rock ‘n’ Roll Week” in February, the 52nd anniversary of […]
Jurassic Shark 2: Aquapocalypse (2021)
“There’s bad and then there’s boring-bad and this is just bad, which is a nice thing to say.” — Sam Panico of B&S About Movies in his review of Brett Kelly’s Jurassic Shark In our never-ending quest to review every shark flick ever released, we just have to. . . . Besides, when you have […]
The Urge to Kill (1989)
Bono Zorro is a famous music producer, or so this movie tells us, but most of the time he’s bringing new ladies into his apartment which is under the control of the proto-Alexa unit named Sensual Environment Control System. Yes, she’s called SEXY and she’s definitely a she. That’s because she’s in love with Bono […]
Thunder Alley (1985)
Roger Wilson, the star of this movie, lost his parents at a young age and inherited several million. He graduated Woodberry Forest School in 1975 with Marvin Bush, the brother of the former President, and had a pretty astounding life, marrying Estée Lauder model Shaun Casey before dating Christy Turlington and Elizabeth Berkley, which was […]
Vampire Journals (1997)
Zachary is something like a hooker with a heart of gold. He’s a vampire with a conscience, hunting down the bloodline of vampires that made him like a gaijin Alucard from the Castlevania games. So yeah, the vampires have even turned the love of his life into one of them, so he must destroy her and […]
Like a Dirty French Novel (2021)
We first reviewed the writing and directing work of self-taught award-winning filmmaker Mike Cuenca with last year’s music ensemble drama I’ll Be Around. We enjoyed that eclectic-eccentric character study, so seeing Cuenca’s name on the one-sheet advanced his latest film to the top of the review stacks. Equally intriguing: Cuenca shot the film in one […]
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