Small Soldiers (1998)
A Joe Dante movie always like a conflict — a battle between blockbuster and personal statement, led by a filmmaker with keen commercial instinct, yet the heart of a non-conformist. Through it all, one walks away with the feeling that while the film itself may have some rough edges, there’s a true love for moviemaking […]
A week of DANGEROUS WOMEN
All next week, we’ll be celebrating films that prove that the female is the more deadly of the species. We’re not looking to exploit beauty, but we will celebrate it where we find it. That said — next week’s five films share a few things in common. A female character who is either incredibly dangerous […]
B&S About Movies episode 73: Ghost Dad
America’s favorite dad becomes a ghost. What was once a comedy is now a horror movie. Come and join us as we take in Bill Cosby’s Ghost Dad, a movie that really upset Sam. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/bandsaboutmovies/episodes/2017-08-17T03_08_05-07_00
Conquest (1983)
Lucio Fulci is a divisive figure: either you worship every movie the man ever made or lent his name to — ignoring continuity errors, bad dubbing, dealing with multiple cuts and names of his films, all while explaining away ridiculous moments like a man patiently waiting for spiders to slowly eat his fake face — […]
The Rosary Murders (1987)
Is this a giallo? A neo-noir? A detective story? Let’s not play with labels. Let’s just see it for what it is — a whodunit where priests and nuns are the victims of a serial killer who leaves a black rosary on their dead bodies. Directed by Fred Walton (When a Stranger Calls) and adapted […]
The Running Man (1987)
There are three things I want to immediately say that I’ve learned upon rewatching this film: Mick Fleetwood is playing himself, it’s aged worse than movies with a much smaller budget, and most importantly, so much of the dystopian future of this movie isn’t as bad as the world we live in right now. Wait […]
Kim Basinger: Professional idiocy, circa 1987 and 1988
In 1987, Kim Basinger appeared in Blake Edwards’ Blind Date with Bruce Willis. In 1988, she appeared in Richard Benjamin’s My Stepmother is an Alien with Dan Aykroyd. In both films, she plays nearly the same role: a woman so devastatingly gorgeous, she decimates the brains of weak-willed men everywhere before settling for a man who obviously […]
Annabelle: Creation (2017)
Do we need a fourth installment in The Conjuring film series? More to the point, do we need another origin story for the evil doll, Annabelle, after 2014’s Annabelle? And can directed David F. Sandberg, whose Lights Out showed such promise only to ultimately be a failure, helm a feature that’s true to the quality James Wan brought to […]
WEEK OF MADE FOR TV MOVIES: Satan’s School for Girl’s (1973)
The early 70s were a time when Satan seemed to reign. I first learned about Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan as a child by reading the TV Guide Book of Lists. They asked him what the most Satanic TV shows were, and he replied with a list that included so many of my […]
B&S About Movies episode 72: Twilight
Becca and I watched the whole Twilight Saga in less than a week. It was painful, but we got a podcast out of it. Please listen, comment and share! You can find us on iTunes or right here: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/bandsaboutmovies/episodes/2017-08-10T08_58_16-07_00
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