JESS FRANCO MONTH: Jess Franco’s Passion (2005)
In his 2000s movies, Jess Franco often features the same actresses — Fata Morgana, Carmen Montes, Rachel Sheppard and always Lina Romay — and the story doesn’t matter. An all-female remake of Franco’s 1986 film El mirón y la exhibicionista, this has a voyeur watching a new young couple and dealing with her ex, played by […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: La Reina Del Tabarin (1960)
Queen of the Tabarin is the first film that Jess Franco made for producer Marius Lesouer and the first film that Soledad Miranda would appear in for Franco, although her role is so small you may not even see her. This is the story of Lolita (Mikaela, who was also in Franco’s Vampiresas 1930), a […]
Murder, Anyone? (2022)
Directed by James Cullen Bressack and written by his father Gordon, this is a story within a story, as the film depicts George (Maurice LaMarche, the voice of The Brain from Pinky and the Brain, a show that the elder Bressack wrote 16 episodes of) and Charlie (Charles M. Howell IV, Gordon Bressack’s real-life writing […]
RADIANCE FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: A Woman Kills (1968)
Several sex workers have been killed and the populace is in a panic as a serial killer is on the loose. Then, a woman named Hélène Picard is executed for the crimes, yet within a few weeks, they start all over again as a mysterious woman is seen with the victims moments before they are killed. Meanwhile, […]
LIONSGATE DVD RELEASE: Colosseum (2022)
Narrated by Robert R. Cargill, this eight-part documentary — originally airing on the History Channel — brings to life the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through one building — the bloody arena known as the Colosseum. In each episode, one fighter type or person tells the story of how Rome’s Emperors used blood and circuses […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: La cripta de las condenadas: Parte II (2012)
Remember a few weeks ago when I watched La cripta de las condenadas? This is supposed to be a hundred years later. Fata Morgana is still in control of these women — Carmen Montes from Snakewoman, Eva Palmer from Jess Franco’s Perversion and actresses who only appeared in this film and its sequel: Marta Simoes, Olivia […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Gemidos de placer (1983)
A remake of Plaisir a trois, an earlier film by Jess Franco that was inspired by the work of the Marquis de Sade, this finds Antonio (Antonio Mayans) as the would-be master of his house who states that everything is permitted for the sake of pleasure. He brings Julia (Lina Romay) home to meet his […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Love and Penguins (2022)
Tilly Monterey (Tammin Sursok) is the Compliance and Outreach Manager for The Animal Discovery Institute and she finally gets to be in charge of her own project, helping The Crystal Bay Penguin Sanctuary in Australia get itself out of a financial mess. She takes her sister Gemma (Madeleine West) with her and you know it, […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Rush for Your Life (2022)
Journalism student Tasha Brooks (Keeya King) is trying to get on the staff of the student newspaper, but Clancy (Keara Graves), the editor, says that she needs a major story to make it. Here’s an idea: the Tau Theta Nu sorority had a death last year during rush week, so she decides to be a pledge. […]
GO TO MASS WITH THE MAD MONK ON THE DIA LATE NITE MOVIE!
This week, join Bill and Sam for a late nite 11 PM showing of Andy Milligan’s Guru the Mad Monk on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channel. You can find Guru the Mad Monk on Tubi and YouTube. Every week, we discuss the films we’re showing, talk about the movie’s ad campaign and have a drink that goes with what […]
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