APRIL MOVIE THON 2 announcement
All April long, there will be thirty themes as writing prompts. If you’d like to be part of April Movie Thon 2, you can just send us an article for that day to bandsaboutmovies@gmail.com or post it on your site and share it out with the hashtag #BSAprilMovieThon. I’m excited to see some new writers […]
Arrow Video The Lukas Moodysson Collection: Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
With Lilya 4-Ever, Lukas Moodysson moves from stories of children dealing with growing up or living in a commune with a very different teen. This is based on Danguolė Rasalaitė, a 16-year-old girl from Lithuania who had come to Sweden in 2000 and was kept by a pimp who forced her to repay him for travel […]
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama 2 (2022)
The Full Moon Features Deadly Ten series has brought us Necropolis: Legion, Weedies! Halloweed Night, Blade: The Iron Cross and will also include Subspecies V: Blood Rise, Bride of the Head of the Family, The Hourglass, Femalien: Cosmic Crush, Shadowheart Crush and The Grim Rapper. Brinke Stevens, who was Taffy in the original Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, is behind the camera, with a […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Prisoner of Love (2022)
Vicky White was a respected jail guard just getting ready to retire, a widow with no children, who found herself in a special relationship with one of her prisoners, Casey White. This went from extra food on his tray and special privileges to her selling her house for cash and going on the run with […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Love You to Death: The Jodi Arias Story (2023)
One of the things I had to learn when I got married was who was who in the true crime stories of not just the headlines, but going back for decades. My wife and her father used to watch these stories unfold in real time and had the same kind of language about them that […]
Arrow Video The Lukas Moodysson Collection: Together (2000)
Together is set in the world of sharehome communes in 1970s Stockholm. Göran (Gustaf Hammarsten) is the leader but his gentle nature basically just has him keeping everyone from fighting over politics and even food. But when his sister Elisabeth (Lisa Lindgren) makes a break from her abusive husband Rolf (Michael Nyqvist) and moves in along […]
Arrow Video The Lukas Moodysson Collection: Show Me Love (1998)
Show Me Love was originally titled Fucking Åmål in reference to one of its leads, Erin, who yells, “Varför måste vi bo i fucking jävla kuk-Åmål?” (Why do we have to live in fucking bloody cock-Åmål?). As the movie was going to be Swedish entry to the Academy Awards, the country itself wanted the name changed, […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Kiss Me Killer (1977)
Death Whistles the Blues was 15 years ago, but Jess Franco loves jazz and understands the refrain and sometimes his universe opens to revise films that he has already made to try — sometimes with success — to recreate them now that he has more experience in this world. Alberto Dalbés is Freddy Carter, which would […]
BLUE UNDERGROUND 4K RELEASE: Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site during the first Jess Franco month on February 1, 2022. I’m excited, though, because it’s been released on 4K UHD by Blue Underground. The Blue Underground 4K UHD released oh Marquis de Sade: Justine has a brand-new 4K restoration from the uncensored original camera negative with Dolby Vision HDRand […]
SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE: A Wounded Fawn (2022)
Director and co-writer — with Nathan Faudree — Travis Stevens (Jakob’s Wife, Girl on the Third Floor) combines the slasher, giallo, Greek mythology, art, romance and even comedy all into one strange little movie, one where the antagonist is forced to become the protagonist; one that makes us sympathize with a female character early only […]
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