FVI WEEK: The Night Child (1975)
Keep telling yourself: She’s just a child. She’s just a child. She’s just a child. She’s just a child. She’s just a child. She’s just a child. Also known as The Cursed Medallion, this Italian ripoff was directed by Massimo Dallamano (What Have You Done to Solange?). Richard Johnson (The Haunting and Dr. Menard from Zombi 2) is a […]
FVI WEEK: The Dragon Lives (1976)
Also known as He’s a Legend, He’s a Hero, this Hong Kong film stars Bruce Li — note, this is not Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth, which also stars Bruce Li AKA Ho Tsung-Tao — in a somewhat made-up story of the life of the recently deceased Bruce Lee. Directed by Singloy Wan and written by […]
FVI WEEK: Getting Into Heaven (1970)
Edward L. Montoro, the man who was the heart and soul of the main era of Film Ventures International, only directed one other movie — Platinum Pussycat — and wrote two others — again, Platinum Pussycat and Day of the Animals — other than this movie. Heaven (Marie Marceau, which is hilarious, because who else would mistake Uschi Digard […]
B&S About Movies podcast episode 16: The Sentinel
The Sentinel is a movie about fashion models, blind priests and Satan. There are some rules to survive a movie like this and I will share them with you. You can buy it from Shout! Factory or watch it on these services. You can listen to the show on Spotify. The show is also available […]
Tales from the Crypt S2 E13: Korman’s Kalamity (1990)
“Oh… Hi there fright fiends. How do you like my rancid rendering? Not bad for an amateur. Hopefully it will give you an inkling of what tonight’s fungusy photo-play is about because long before my eerie offerings appeared on your silver screen, they were a magazine called, get a load of this, Tales From the […]
FVI WEEK: Buckstone County Prison (1978)
“In 1957 The People of North Carolina Feared Two Things…The Mountain Chain Gang And A Man Named Seabo.” If that doesn’t work for you, how about “First there was Cool Hand Luke then Billy Jack, but there has never been anyone like Seabo.” Earl Owensby had already made four movies — Challenge, The Brass Rings, Dark Sunday and Death […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: FInal Heist (2024)
Willa (Camila Banus), Hailey (Jasmine Shanise), Kenzie (Shonte Akognon), Flynn (Virginia Ma) and Liev (Justin Chu Cary) used to be a gang that robbed banks. But on their last job — and just before Willa gave birth to her daughter with Liev — they miss one armed guard who shoots Liev and sends the girls […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Played and Betrayed (2024)
Directed by Jaira Thomas and written by Briana Cole (The Marriage Pass), this finds Brandon (Asan N’Jie) and Andrea (Savannah Steyn) going on a vacation to the UK to try and fix their marriage. He’s a workaholic and it seems like whatever got them together is long gone. Even when they make their way to […]
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