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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: When I was a kid, I remember asking my dad what movies he thought were scary. He answered Night of the Living Dead and Gargoyles, so I was always nervous to […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Deadly Blessing was on the CBS Late Movie on March 28 and July 14, 1988. Alright, I’ll admit it: I don’t like Wes Craven, but I liked this movie. The Hittites are a religious community who “make the Amish look like swingers,” and even when people like Jim Schmidt escape it, they keep […]
Week 14 (Sept. 20 – 26) – THE END! Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: Make sure to pull the ladder up on the way out God is Dead. Hell Still Exists. Well, that’s a great tagline and an even better poster. As for the movie, well…it tries. In the future, society is divided into a strict class structure with the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid was on the CBS Late Movie on April 10, 1987. Where could Steve Martin and Carl Reiner go after The Jerk and The Man with Two Brains? How about to the world of film noir? At lunch with Reiner and screenwriter George Gip, Martin discussed using a clip from an […]
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: As Matthew watches his father work on a tractor, he decides to turn it on and kill him with it, all at the cost of his own left hand. […]
Browse Collection Here Veteran independent film producer and Cartuna founder James Belfer has launched a new home video label, Video Visions. The company will release Limited Edition, Collector’s Edition and Standard Edition Blu-rays; the discs will be designed in close collaboration with filmmakers and sold directly on Video Visions’ website. The online store is open […]
So easy to love. So hard to kill. Man, if there’s such a thing as a perfect movie, put Switchblade Sisters on the list. Maggie (Joanna Nail, the mother of The Visitor!) has moved to a new high school run by the Silver Daggers and their women, the Dagger Debs. Maggie gets caught up in an arrest, […]
When you doubt what a movie is and it’s playing at a drive-in in the 70s, chances are it’s a Schoolgirl Report movie. Also known as Sex at the Olympics and Girls Who Came to Munich, this is—like those films—a stitched-together carousel of softcore vignettes set against the backdrop of Munich 1972 that has absolutely […]
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: What else can be said about The Shining that hasn’t been said before? How many times have I seen this film, and what can I add to the conversation? That’s […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Enchanted was on the CBS Late Movie on March 18 and July 23, 1987. The Enchanted is a Florida regional film that mainly played in the South but still found its way to the CBS Late Movie. Its filmmakers self-released it on DVD, but the first Blu-ray release is on the new Severin All […]
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