Amazing World of Ghosts (1978)
I’m sad that I only have a few Wheeler Dixon and Sidney Paul paranormal docs left, but instead of being upset that it’s over, I will be happy that I had the experience. The film begins with a classic Dixon/Paul flourish: A young boy walking down a city street at night. The narration immediately pivots […]
Spin̈al Tap II: The End Continues (2025)
Is Spinal Tap II strictly for the devotees who can recite the exact dimensions of a Stonehenge prop? Probably. But as a card-carrying member of the Tap-heads, I couldn’t care less. Getting eighty more minutes with Nigel Tufnel, David St. Hubbins, and Derek Smalls feels less like a movie and more like a family reunion […]
Tales from the Darkside S2 E13: Comet Watch (1986)
Amateur astrologist Englebert Ames (Anthony Heald, Silence of the Lambs) can’t wait for Halley’s Comet, but his wife Charlene (Kate McGregor-Stewart) couldn’t care less. She’s more interested in going to a fancy event with her parents, but he knows this is the last chance he’ll have to see the famous space event. The tension between Englebert […]
B & S About Movies podcast Episode 130: Rednecks
Breaker breaker, you got your ears on? Here’s some good talking coming at ya about Nashville Girl, What Comes Around, Ellie, Texas Lightning and Moonfire. You can listen to the show on Spotify. The show is also available on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Podcasts, Podchaser and Google Podcasts Important links: Theme song: Strip Search by Neal Gardner. Donate to […]
UFO: Top Secret (1978)
Wheeler Dixon and Sidney Paul made so many of these movies, and you may get confused because they all seem so similar. Yet you must go down this corridor and expose yourself to each of their films. What connects these films? The fact that they continually remind us that aliens want to eat us. How […]
Alien Warrior (1985)
Buddy’s (Brett Baxter Clark, Nick the Dick from Bachelor Party, Bruiser from Teen Witch and the gardener of Young Lady Chatterley II; seriously these are the kind of roles that make me light headed when reading an IMDb and that’s not even bringing up the Andy Sidaris movies and starring in Delta Force Commando, Deathstalker IV, […]
Anniversary (2025)
Over the course of this movie, the Taylor family will be destroyed. At first, they get together for the parents’ 25th wedding anniversary. Georgetown professor Ellen (Diane Lane) and restaurateur Paul (Kyle Chandler), attended by their four children: lawyer Cynthia (Zoey Deutch) and her husband Rob (Daryl McCormack); out lesbian stand up Anna (Madeline Brewer); […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Laughing Woman (1968)
I’ve spent years staring at the iconography of this film, specifically that haunting, colossal sculpture of a woman whose thighs form a gateway to a rolling skeleton. You worry, after seeing imagery that potent, that the film itself will be a hollow vessel. But The Laughing Woman isn’t just a movie; it’s a vibrant, pop-art […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Lady Terminator (1986)
If you think you’ve seen it all, “Lady Terminator” (originally Pembalasan Ratu Laut Selatan or Revenge of the South Sea Queen) is here to rearrange your brain chemistry. On paper, it’s a beat-for-beat tribute to James Cameron’s 1984 classic, a film famously rooted in the DNA of Harlan Ellison’s “Demon with a Glass Hand” and […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Lady In Red (1979)
Roger Corman told writer John Sayles just one sentence: He wanted “a female Godfather story about the woman who was with John Dillinger when he was shot.” The real Lady In Red was Anna Sage, who had come to America from Romania and became a brothel owner. As she faced deportation for her criminal activities, […]
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