April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama Primer: Terror Train (1980)
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 29 and 30, 2022. This Back to the 80s Weekend is going to be amazing! The features for Friday, April 29 are Halloween 2, Terror Train, Midnight and Effects. Saturday, April 30 has Evil Dead 2, Re-Animator, Dr. Butcher MD and Zombie 3. Admission is still […]
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama Primer: Halloween 2 (1981)
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 29 and 30, 2022. This Back to the 80s Weekend is going to be amazing! The features for Friday, April 29 are Halloween 2, Terror Train, Midnight and Effects. Saturday, April 30 has Evil Dead 2, Re-Animator, Dr. Butcher MD and Zombie 3. Admission is still […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 25: Tilt (1979)
Neil Gallagher (Ken Marshall, Prince Colwyn from Krull) wants to get back at Harold “The Whale” Remmens (Charles Durning), who just might be the best pinball player in the world. After he’s busting cheating, he leaves town and soon discovers 14-year-old pinball player Brenda “Tilt” Davenport (Brooke Shields), who comes from a bad home and […]
April Movie Thon Day 25: Beatlemania: The Movie (1981)
So, the day of April 25 on the B&S About Movies’ announcement for the April Movie Thon so proclaimed today as “Fads” day: Lambada. Disco. Garbage Pail Kids. You could toss superhero movies on the VHS stack. Elvis movies*. Buddy Cop flicks. Gangster movies. Movies starring Melissa McCarthy and Tim Allen. Oh, but how could […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 25: Ringmaster (1998)
Despite what that VICE Dark Side of the 90s would have you believe, Jerry Springer didn’t invent his show format. Morton Downey Jr., Geraldo Rivera, Phil Donahue (who he was a clone of at first) and Wally George had all been there and done that, but Springer ended up hitting the cultural zeitgeist at the right […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 25: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987)
The Garbage Pail Kids came out in 1985 from Topps and were created by Art Spiegelman. Yes, the same cartoonist who made Maus. He and Mark Newgarden worked together as the editors and art directors of the project, with Len Brown — the same person who Wally Wood named T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agent Dynamo after and one of […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 25
For the twenty-fifth day of the B&S About Movies April Movie Thon, it’s all movies that are based on short lived big deals. April 25: Fads — Lambada. Disco. Garbage Pail Kids. What’s your favorite fad-related movie? All April long, we’ll have thirty themes as writing prompts. If you’d like to be part of it, you […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter (1984)
Alexander Fu Sheng was another in the line of martial arts actors who could have been the next Bruce Lee, yet he died unexpectedly in a car accident during the making of this movie. Fight-choreographer-turned -director Lau Kar-leung (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Legendary Weapons of China, Challenge of the Masters) remade this film — based on […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: Dr. Phibes double feature
EDITOR’S NOTE: These articles originally were on the site on March 31, 2019 and April 1, 2019. These are two of my favorite movies and I’m so excited that Kino Lorber has released them on a double blu ray along with commentary tracks by director Robert Fuest, The Dr. Phibes Companion author Justin Humphreys and film historian Tim […]
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