Perversions of Science E3: Boxed In (1997)
For years, Kevin Pollak has done a Shatner impersonation. So why not have him in a Shatner-directed and starring episode as the potential son-in-law of the man who is Kirk? A pilot (Pollak) has been engaged to Adm. Kornfeld’s (Shatner) daughter Dulcine (meta here, it’s Shatner’s real-life daughter Melanie, who was also in Syngenor, Cthulhu Mansion, Bloodstone: Subspecies […]
VCI BLU-RAY RELEASE: Psychotronia Collection #2 – Mondo Keyhole (1966)
Howard Thorne (Nick Moriarty) stalks and assaults women on a regular basis. Or maybe he’s just dreaming of it. He wants nothing to do with his junkie wife Vicki (Adele Rein, The Girl With the Hungry Eyes). When they go to a costume party together, she learns who he really is while he learns what […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Aug 4-10 Stoner Comedy Week: I don’t gas reefer anymore, but I love it when people in movies do! Written in 1977 by Phillip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly is based on Dick’s life. Between mid-1970 (when his fourth wife, Nancy, left him) and mid-1972, Dick opened his house up to teenage drug users as his amphetamine […]
B & S About Movies podcast Episode 95: Possession movies
Two of my favorite devil movies: I Don’t Want to Be Born and The Entity. No one is safe! Donald Pleasence shows up for one, though! You can listen to the show on Spotify. The show is also available on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Amazon Podcasts, Podchaser and Google Podcasts
Song of the Sword Special Edition 2025
Back in early 2023, in the middle of SOV mania, I found the film Song of the Sword on the Internet Archive, thanks to Demolition Kitchen. It obsessed me — a rare movie that it seemed that no one else had seen with no Letterboxd or IMDB entry. I wrote about it, entered it into both […]
RADIANCE BLU-RAY RELEASE: The Tale Of Oiwa’s Ghost (1961)
When the daughter of an elite family falls in love with a poor samurai named Iemon (Tomisaburo Wakayama), he gets rid of his wife Oiwa by dumping her into a swamp. She comes back on the night of his marriage as a monstrous ghost. Yes, it’s the Ghost Story of Yotsuya remade. Directed and written […]
88 FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Detonation! Violent Riders (1975)
Iwaki (Koichi Iwaki) is a motorbike mechanic who wants to be a racer. He’s tempted by the Red Rose Gang, who are speed junkies destroying everything in their path, as well as the charms of one of their members, Mayumi (Junko Matsudaira), who doesn’t believe in monogamy, despite being the girlfriend of the gang’s leader, […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Super Troopers (2001)
Aug 4-10 Stoner Comedy Week: I don’t gas reefer anymore, but I love it when people in movies do! For a fifty-mile stretch of the highways surrounding Spurbury, Vermont, Captain John O’Hagen (Brian Cox), Lieutenant Arcot Ramathorn (Jay Chandrasekhar), “Rabbit” Roto (Erik Stolhanske), “Mac” Womack (Steve Lemme), Rodney “Rod” Farva (Kevin Heffernan) and Carl Foster […]
ARROW VIDEO BLU RAY RELEASE: Perpetrator (2023)
Directed and written by Jennifer Reeder, this is the tale of Jonny (Kiah McKirnan), a teenage girl living in a town where young women keep disappearing. Before she turns 18, her father sends her to live with Aunt Hilde (Alicia Silverstone) and undergo a family spell, the Forevering. Now, Jonny thirsts for blood and is […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)
Based on Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, written by Thomas De Quincey — the same person who inspired Suspiria — and has Vincent Price as Gilbert De Quincey. He’s an adventurer hired to stop the sale of Chinese brides to overseas men. That makes this sound too ordinary, a film that feels like you’re on drugs, […]
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