The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Devil’s Sleep (1949)
Roadshow Rarities (June 30 – July 6) In the old days of theatrical releases some of the more lavish movies would be promoted by holding limited screenings in large cities. These roadshow releases would generate hype before the nationwide release and allow producers to tweak the film to the audience’s reaction. This model also worked […]
Junesploitation: Beware My Brethren (1972)
June 30: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Slasher! This month, I tackled a different genre every day. This is the end. Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis (The Black Torment, Gonks Go Beat, Black Gun, my beloved Corruption) and written by Brian Comport (Girly, The Asphyx), this starts with a baptism being […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: The Toy Box (1971)
Uschi Digard week (June 23 – 29) Digard is best known for her work with Russ Meyer but she became an SWV fan favorite for two gargantuan reasons, her charm and her prolific career. The Swiss actress fled to America in 1968 and began a long career filling the silver screen from corner to corner […]
Junesploitation: Death Game (1996)
June 29: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is New Horizons! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next. No, not that Death Game. Directed by Randy Cheveldave, who mainly worked as a producer, and written by Blain Brown, who directed and […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024: Funsized Epics Vol. 2
Join CFF as we take a journey into the longer side of short cinema. One of the many joys of presenting our festival in a hybrid format is that it allows us to include so many amazing films that our time limitations during our in-person days wouldn’t allow, and it also gives us the freedom […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Fantasm (1976)
Uschi Digard week (June 23 – 29) Digard is best known for her work with Russ Meyer but she became an SWV fan favorite for two gargantuan reasons, her charm and her prolific career. The Swiss actress fled to America in 1968 and began a long career filling the silver screen from corner to corner […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Red Eye #7: Zardoz (1974)
What movie would Sean Connery choose to follow up his run as James Bond with? Well, it’s The Offence, but this was his second movie after. And it’s definitely the first film John Boorman did after Deliverance. What they created was a film that absolutely cannot be easily explained. I’ve watched it in the double digits and […]
B&S About Movies podcast episode 36: Foreign Exorcists
It’s episode 36 (66), so why not get into how Italy and France ripped off The Exorcist with Magdalena, Possessed by the Devil and Enter the Devil? Watch Magdalena on YouTube and Enter the Devil on Tubi. You can listen to the show on Spotify. The show is also available on Apple Podcasts, I Heart […]
Tales from the Crypt S4 E1: None But the Lonely Heart (1992)
Tales from the Crypt gave many stars a chance to direct and this time, Tom Hanks is the man yelling action. “Damn you Marcel! I told you they wanted violence, not violins. Good help is so hard to fiend isn’t it, kiddies? Want a little more cham-pain? I hope you’re hungry for tonight’s murderous menu. […]
Junesploitation: From Hell to the Wild West (2017)
June 28: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Westerns! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next. I love a horror Western. There’s Bone Tomahawk, The Pale Door, Death Ride In the House of the Vampires — I had to get that in there […]
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