ARROW VIDEO 4K UHD RELEASE: Identity (2003)
If you read the pitch for James Mangold’s 2003 psychological thriller, you’d be forgiven for rolling your eyes. Ten strangers stranded at a dreary Nevada motel during a torrential downpour? A killer picking them off one by one, counting down by room keys? It sounds like the most mothballed, bargain-bin Agatha Christie homage imaginable, like […]
MGM BLU-RAY RELEASE: The Sheep Detectives (2026)
Cinematic adaptations of whimsical animal literature follow an unspoken rule: keep the stakes low, the puns high, and let the humans chew the scenery while the CGI critters dance. But Craig Mazin’s script for The Sheep Detectives—adapted from Leonie Swann’s 2005 novel Three Bags Full—refuses to play it safe. It is a mystery comedy that […]
NEON BLU-RAY RELEASE: Exit 8 (2026)
What if an indie walking simulator game, set in a sterile Japanese subway hallway, became an exploration of existential dread, domestic panic and impending fatherhood? Video game adaptations often fall into one of two camps. They either cling too tightly to every button prompt and fan service moment until the narrative is stifled. Or worse, […]
RADIANCE BLU-RAY RELEASE: The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)
A wry, hallucinatory, and sardonic Italian-style dark comedy that mixes sex, paranoia and mid-century swagger, made in a place where Rome was in the mod 60s, scored by a jazzy Armando Trovajoli, all mixed up to show one man going insane when he thinks his wife is stepping out on him. Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli, […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2026: Phantasm (1979)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: Directed, written, photographed, and edited by auteur Don Coscarelli, the original Phantasm makes much more sense if viewed less as a linear film and more as a collection of imagery, a […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: You Can’t Win ‘Em All (1970)
EDITOR’S NOTE: You Can’t Win ‘Em All was on the CBS Late Movie on March 23 and December 9, 1997 and June 16 and December 12, 1978. At the close of the Ottoman Empire, two American soldiers of fortune – Adam (Tony Curtis) and Josh (Charles Bronson) – team up to see how they can […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2026: Hellraiser (1987)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: Horror movies don’t scare me. Not anymore. Some of them disturb me, like the cannibal films. But only one still kind of scares me. And that would be Hellraiser. […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Dune Warriors (1991)
Week 14 (Sept. 20 – 26) – THE END! Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: Make sure to pull the ladder up on the way out Directed by low-budget maestro Cirio H. Santiago and executive produced by the king of exploitation himself, Roger Corman, this 77-minute slice of post-apocalyptic, well, magic is less an original motion picture and more of a […]
B & S About Movies podcast Special Episode 25: September Drive-In Monster Super-Rama
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: Admission is $15 per person each night (children 12 and under – accompanied by an adult guardian – are admitted free). Overnight camping is available (breakfast included) for an […]
CBS LATE MOVIE: The 500 Pound Jerk (1973)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 500 Pound Jerk was on the CBS Late Movie on February 28 and November 14, 1975. When his breakfast cereal is found to have no nutritional value, an advertising man (James Franciscus) has three months to save the product or get lost. Around the same time, he has car trouble and, at […]
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