CBS LATE MOVIE: Linda (1973)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Linda was on the CBS Late Movie on September 29, 1975, May 24, 1977 and June 12, 1978. John D. MacDonald had several of his books turned into movies. The Executioners was filmed twice as Cape Fear, Soft Touch inspired Man-Trap, plus the novels Darker Than Amber, The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything, Condominium and A Flash of Green […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Mondo Trasho (1969)
June 30- July 6 Puke Week!: Throwing up isn’t very funny, but making your internet friends watch a puke movie is! Chickens lose their heads. The Bombshell (Mary Vivian Pierce) rides the bus and reads Hollywood Babylon. A foot fetishist (David Lochary) appears and licks her toes while she dreams that she’s in a fairy […]
RADIANCE BLU RAY RELEASE: Hokuriku Proxy War (1977)
Kawada (Hiroki Matsukata) is a yakuza member of the Tomiyasu Group, who has been promised by his boss, Mr. Yasuhara, that he will receive control of the security business for the speedboat racetrack in exchange for killing a man. He follows through and pays for the crime by going to jail. Years later, when he’s […]
EUREKA BLU RAY RELEASE: The Adventurers (1995)
Wai Lok-yan (Andy Lau) was just eight years old — during the Khmer Rouge — when his parents were killed as he watched, the victims of Pol Pot, as his father was working for the CIA. Years later, Wai is a member of the Thai Air Force and learns that his father’s murderer — a […]
B & S About Movies podcast Episode 90: God Movies
Yes, let’s sit down on a hot summer day and imagine how much hotter Hell is as we listen to a long-winded diatribe about God’s Not Dead and Time Changer, two films that should get off the cross because we could all use the wood. You can listen to the show on Spotify. The show is also […]
Tales from the Crypt S7 E12: Ear Today…Gone Tomorrow ( 1996)
One episode away from the end. Directed by Christopher Hart (Eat and Run) and written by Steven Dodd and Ed Tapia, this is the story of Glynn Fennel (Robert Lindsay), a safecracker whose hearing is going, which leads to him screwing up his jobs. Mob boss Malcolm Lawson (Richard Johnson) spares his life, on the […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: I, Desire (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: I, Desire was on the CBS Late Movie on August 5 and 23, 1988.. When you see the name John Llewellyn Moxey on the credits of a movie, you know you’re getting into something extraordinary. Just look at The House That Would Not Die, A Taste of Evil, The Night Stalker, Nightmare In Badham County, Deadly Deception and, well, just […]
88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: The Magnificent Cheng Cheh: The Magnificent Trio and Magnificent Wanderers (1966, 1977)
The Godfather of Hong Kong Cinema, Chang Cheh, had a career that spanned from the wuxia films of the 1960s to the martial arts movies of the 1970s, encompassing a wide range of other genres. The Magnificent Trio (1966): Starring Jimmy Wang Yu as swordsman Lu Fang, Lo Lieh as Yen Tzu-ching and Cheng Lui as […]
RADIANCE FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Tchao Pantin (1983)
Bensoussan (Richard Anconina) is a drug dealer, but really, he’s small-time. When the cops are on his trail, he hides in a gas station and ends up befriending the night manager, Lambert (Coluche), a bitter old man who finds hope and seeks to redeem the younger criminal. However, debts and bad decisions lead to Bensoussan […]
RADIANCE FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Returning from a ten-year prison sentence, gang leader Gunji (Koji Tsuruta) learns that his territory is now owned by a former enemy who only appears to be a legitimate business. Instead of staying, he and his crew head off to Okinawa. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, this finds a proud yakuza learning that his men are […]
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