CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Bride of WTF
WTF got married and here are more shorts. Beef Creek (2024): Occultist Mr. Petrulo runs a New York-style deli in middle of nowhere Wyoming with Horace, Sandra, Lily and Ralphie. That’s the quick description, and as I always write, hijinks ensue. In this pilot, Ralphie falls into a pocket dimension inside the deli’s dumpster and is […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Garfield: His Nine Lives (1988)
June 23-29 Cat Week: Cats! They’re earth’s funniest creatures (sorry chimps, you’re psychos). Based on the 1984 book, Jim Davis decided to show us all the past lives of Garfield — the one we know is life eight — and also depress us along the way. The book has Vikings, a dinosaur Odie and even […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Salutes Your Shorts Again
DiMore shorts? Yes! Bloody Marian (2025): A bartender with a bit of an attitude faces a significant challenge when a customer arrives whose taste for drink can’t be stopped. Directed and written by Sommar Ashleigh Boulware, this film has a great visual look, reminiscent of Sin City, and a fun premise. Dead Pet Shark (2025): Directed and written by […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Trunk to Cairo (1966)
June 28: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Cannon! I’ve watched 162/162 of all Cannon films — Golan and Globus era — as well as 56/56 of the Dewey/Friedland years, 106/246 of the Cannon Home Video releases, 6 out of the 12 movies Golan and Globus did before […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: WTF (Watch These Films)
Another round of shorts? Let’s watch them. Is That a Mime (2024): First off, yes, that is a mime. Second, if you encounter a mime in the park and it appears to be a killing machine, the chances are very good that, indeed, that mime is a killing machine. Directed and written by Phil Cheney, this film […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Dangerous Visions
More shorts? Yes! Bathroom Spider (2025): Directed by Christine Weatherup and written by C.J. Hoke, this short finds a young bride (Ivy Strohmaier) having her heart callously broken by her husband (Logan Eller). With only her bathroom spider to confide in, he will soon find that he’s not the only one able to go through great change […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Baby Cat (2023)
June 23-29 Cat Week: Cats! They’re earth’s funniest creatures (sorry chimps, you’re psychos). I’m trying to answer this cat movie challenge, so I went to Tubi, where I found this movie and its description: “When Dana moves into her new apartment, she falls in love with the building’s cat, who happens to be a grown […]
B & S About Movies podcast Episode 89: One On Top of the Other
Fulci shows everyone how to make a Giallo years before Giallo were a big deal. Listen to me struggle not to just talk about how attractive Marisa Mell is for twenty minutes! You can listen to the show on Spotify. The show is also available on Apple Podcasts, I Heart Radio, Amazon Podcasts, Podchaser and […]
Tales from the Crypt S8 E11: Confession (1996)
Warhol Evans (Eddie Izzard), a horror screenwriter suspected of beheading women and keeping their craniums as trophies, is being questioned by Jack Lynch (Ciarán Hinds), who is the kind of tough homicide detective that every cop wants to be. This is one of those episodes that gets very meta, referring to a book, The Satanic Scriptures, written […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Jacaranda Joe (1994)
June 27: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Free Space! In June 1994, George Romero came to Florida’s Valencia College to film a movie he’d wanted to make for some time—or at least part of it. Working with students at the school, he shot a few minutes of Jacaranda […]
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