Exploring (Before “Star Wars”): The Russian Antecedents of 2001: A Space Odyssey
While Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey used Arthur C. Clark’s 1951 short story The Sentinel as its launch point, Kubrick’s true inspirations for his game changing science fiction classic were the pioneering Russian/Eastern Bloc science fiction films released during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Most of these films were adapted directly or inspired […]
Exploring: 10 Tangerine Dream Film Soundtracks
About the Authors: Sam Panico runs B&S Movies. R.D Francis writes for B&S Movies and can be reached on Facebook. Tangerine Dream, a German electronic band founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese, is justifiably revered as pioneers in electronica, a musical style that incorporated conventional instruments such as electric guitars, acoustic drums and Hammond organs […]
Exploring: 50 Gen-X Grunge Films of the Alt-Rock ‘90s
Editor’s Note: Thank you to our readers for making this one of our most-visited posts. Bookmark it for your one-stop reference for grunge flicks. We’ve since newly reviewed (and hyperlinked) several of the films referenced within each of the reviews to discover. Before Nirvana, the Spin Doctors, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Pearl Jam, […]
Exploring: Slasher Month is dead
Slasher month has come and gone and that’s sad, to be honest. We watched more than eighty slashers over thirty one days, so that’s been quite the journey. We’ve also shared plenty of top ten slasher lists from friends and created some in-depth articles about the genre. Whether you’ve been with us from October 1 […]
Exploring: The Halloween That Never Was
As much as we love the Halloween series — give or take a few Halloween remakes and quasi-sequels — the idea that there were unmade films in the series makes us both giddy at the prospect and simultaneously sad at the loss of what we never got to see. Join us as we share several of the Halloween […]
Exploring The Weapons, The Hours and The Motives of Slasher Films
This weekend, after literal months of watching slashers prepping for this October’s Slasher Month event, I started thinking about each subsequent slasher as a game of Clue. To wit: How did each person get killed? What holiday or time of year killed them? And why did they get wiped out? Francesco Mazzei’s 1972 giallo lent this […]
EXPLORING: Slasher Remakes
If there’s one thing Hollywood can’t get enough of, it’s mining the past to try and one-up what has come before. With the resurgence of the slasher after 1996’s Scream as well as a world where teenagers riled the box office, all manner of once-dormant properties now had a new lease on life. The only difference is that now, […]
Exploring: The Friday the 13th That Never Was
We haven’t had a Friday the 13th movie for more than a decade. Then again, if 2009’s glossy Marcus Nispel-directed Friday the 13th reboot is any indication of the kind of films we’d be suffering through, perhaps it’s not such a bad thing that the lawsuit between Horror Inc. and the Manny Company versus Victor Miller has […]
Exploring: Video Nasties Section 3 (non-prosecuted films)
We’ve already covered the Section 1 video nasties that were prosecuted and the Section 2 non-prosecuted movies, but now we’re in new territory. The section 3 video nasties couldn’t be prosecuted for obscenity but were liable to be seized and confiscated under a less obscene charge. Any video tapes seized on the Section 3 list […]
Exploring: The Unmade Films of Sylvester Stallone
Every creative force has projects that they either turn down or work hard to get made, but ultimately never make it to light. Sylvester Stallone is no different, as there have been several films — some a long time in development — that have never made it to the silver screen. I was inspired by […]
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