EDITOR’S NOTE: License to Drive was not produced by Cannon and was theatrically distributed by 20th Century Fox in the U.S., but in the Netherland, it was distributed Cannon Releasing Corporation. I must like this movie, because I wrote an entirely new article about it despite writing about it back on June 12, 2021. Greg Beeman […]
Somehow, watching teen movies means watching so much of the Coreys. This time, Haim is Les Anderson and Feldman is Dean, with Haim’s character trying to get his driver’s license to that he can impress Mercedes Lane (Heather Graham). He fails the test multiple times, but still takes his grandfather’s 1972 Cadillac Sedan de Ville […]
“Documentaries are boring. Who wants to watch a bunch of talking heads bragging about themselves?”—Eric, purveyor of film quality and all things Sein(feld)suck. And to a degree, I agree with my running-bud Eric: unless you have an interest in the subject matter at hand. As someone who’s spent his life in radio broadcasting and enamored […]
“Shake it up, Shake it up, baby.”— Ric Ocasek of the Cars “Heaven Really Is That Hot, Huh?” — Courtesy of the Saban Entertainment copywriting department “Starring Zach Gallifan and Corey Feldman of Gremlins!” — Prism Entertainment’s copywriting hornswoggle Time to break out the B&S About Movies cocktail shaker! Let’s see what libations are on […]
Ron, who is struggling to find a stable job after being fired from his mechanics gig, cannot afford to buy the Porsche 911 of his wild dreams. Then his dream cars appears . . . and it’s owned by Annie, an old high school girlfriend. They make a date to catch up, but Ron learned […]
Ever seen License to Drive? That’s a Greg Beeman movie, too. This one, he got Jeffrey Jones, usually the villain, to play the heroic dad opposite Terri Garr. Of course it bombed. But it ended up becoming an HBO and video store favorite. Emperor Tod Spengo (Jon Lovitz) rules the planet Spengo, the leader of idiots […]
Based on Nicholas Conde’s book The Religion, The Believers is a movie that often goes where other films have the sense — or good taste — not to. Cats with their heads cut off, goats being killed, the bodies of kids being found sacrificed in rituals — if you’re coming into this one expecting a fun […]
Redline was the working title of The Fast and the Furious, a movie that definitely — alright, totally — inspired this movie. The controversy around the film may be a bigger story than the movie, as it was produced by Daniel Sadek, who also wrote this movie. Sadek dropped out of school in Lebanon in the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This movie was watched as part of Salem Horror Fest. You can still get a weekend pass for weekend two. Single tickets are also available. Here’s the program of what’s playing. When I first saw The Hitcher, I was probably 14 years old and saw it as a straight-ahead story of violence on the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on October 28, 2020. The Hitcher was not produced by Cannon but was theatrically distributed by Cannon France. When I first saw The Hitcher, I was probably 14 years old and saw it as a straight-ahead story of violence on the highway. I probably cheered at the end when […]
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