Apartment 413 (2021)
You know our jam at B&S About Movies: we love the drive-in and VHS flicks of yesteryear (give us a Mill Creek box set to unpack), but we also enjoy exposing our readers to the new, indie vanguard of streaming filmmakers in lieu of the A-List popcorn balls and tent poles coming out of Hollywood. […]
The Misadventures of Mistress Maneater (2021)
This “romantic comedy with jagged edges” is the feature film debut by the Chicago-based acting, writing and directing team of C.J. Julianus and his wife Lorrisa Julianus, under their Binary Star Pictures banner. Filmed throughout the Chicago area, our maneating mistress Ava Moriatry (Lorrisa Julianus) is a disgraced Art History PhD with a unique sideline […]
Royal Jelly (2021)
Sean Riley is the the principal of Benndale Elementary School in George County, Mississippi by day, but by night, he wrote and directed this movie all about a school outcast who becomes a human bee groomed to be the next queen of the hive. This is his second full-length movie after 2017’s Fighting Belle, in which […]
Death Drop Gorgeous (2020)
Written and directed by Christopher Dalpe, Brandon Perras (who also played Tony Two Fingers, as well as doing the cinematography and editing) and Michael J. Ahern (who was Detective O’Hara), Death Drop Gorgeous presents a slasher world that we haven’t seen, well, nearly ever in the form: a campy, gay-positive glitter, makeup neon and booze-soaked — […]
What She Said (2021)
This is how you do a tagline: “Everybody has an opinion. Nobody has WiFi.” Sam (Jenny Lester, who wrote the script for this dark comedy) has decided to drop the charges against the man who assaulted her. Now, on Thanksgiving, perhaps one of the most stressful days of the year, her family and friends have […]
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
Where could Steve Martin and Carl Reiner go after The Jerk and The Man with Two Brains? How about to the world of film noir? At lunch with Reiner and screenwriter George Gip, Martin discussed using a clip from an old film as part of a story he was writing. From that came the idea to […]
REPOST: Tokoloshe: An African Curse (2018)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally covered this film on December 27, 2019. It’s been re-released under a slightly different title and is now available on Tubi. Busi is young destitute woman with dangerously repressed emotions that has just started a cleaning job at a rundown hospital in the heart of Johannesburg. In need of cash so […]
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