Reed’s Point (2022)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We shared a preview last year for this movie. Check it out. A vehicle crash in the Pine Barrens led to a Kelsey’s (Madison Ekstrand) disappearance and locals blamed it on the infamous Jersey Devil. Then, on the anniversary of the crash, Sarah Franklin (Sasha Anne), the cousin of the missing girl, and […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 15: The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told started as a radio series in 1947 written by Henry Denker and a 1949 novel by Fulton Oursler, a senior editor at Reader’s Digest. 20th Century Fox boss Darryl F. Zanuck acquired the film rights and Denker wrote a script, but when Zanuck left the studio in 1956, it was […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 15: If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horsemen Do? (1971)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Herbert P. Caine is the pseudonym of a frustrated academic and genre movie fan in Pennsylvania. You can read his blog at https://imaginaryuniverseshpc.blogspot.com. EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of Sam’s favorite movies and he can and will take any opportunity to talk about it. Read his article about it. Exploitation films and […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 15: The Bible: In the Beginning… (1966)
As movies battles television for the entertainmenty audience, theaters started showing movies so big that they couldn’t play the same on the small screen. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Huston, this was quite the project: make a movie of the first 22 chapters of the Biblical Book of Genesis from The […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 15: The Robe (1953)
The first Hollywood film made in CinemaScope, The Robe was based on Lloyd C. Douglas’ novel and was written by Gina Kaus, Albert Maltz and Philip Dunne, although Maltz was blacklisted and his name would not be in the credits of this movie for decades. Directer Henry Koster knew something about being an enemy of the […]
Circle of Fear episode 15: “Dark Vengeance”
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first episode of Circle of Fear that I ever watched, as I was trying to find a movie with an evil horse for this year’s Scarecrow Challenge. I’m so glad that I found this as it led to me watching the entire series. This originally was posted on October 22, 2021. […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 15: The Precious Jade Calendar (2019)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Herbert P. Caine is the pseudonym of a frustrated academic and genre movie fan in Pennsylvania. You can read his blog at https://imaginaryuniverseshpc.blogspot.com. When people think of religious scare films, they generally think of Christian productions such as Blood Freak, The Burning Hell or Unplanned. Those with more international tastes may remember Muslim […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 15: Benedetta (2021)
When Jean-Luc Godard’s Hail Mary came out in 1985, the Catholic Church was so upset they talked about it in my little church in Ellwood City and I’d never heard of Goddard before, so thanks for using indignation to make me discover art. In fact, I’d already been turning to the films rated “O” by the Pittsburgh […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 15
For the fifteenth day of the B&S About Movies April Movie Thon, let us kneel. Let us stand. April 15: Good Friday — You don’t have to go to church but you do have to watch a religious-themed movie. All April long, we’ll have thirty themes as writing prompts. If you’d like to be part of […]
The Sacred Spirit (2021)
“Cosmic Pharaoh” José Manuel is a member of the ufology association Ovni-Levante (UFO-Raise), which meets weekly to exchange information about the latest messages from the stars and abductions down here on Earth. When their leader dies unexpectedly, José becomes humanity’s only hope, the keeper of a cosmic secret. Even more mysteriously, that knowledge ties in to […]
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