I Hate Kids (2019)
No way are you going to click on this review. No way. So I’ll have to force your hand: this movie is connected to the cheesy ’80s heavy metal horror flick Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare. Now if that doesn’t make you want to read this film review . . . well, I’ll just have to […]
Drive-In Friday: Musician Slashers Night
We, the celluloid thoughtful folks at B&S About Movies, with our vast end-of-the-world apoc-movie knowledge (as seen in our Atomic Dustbin roundup) know this recent Coronavirus lockdown is a trying time for all of us movie lovers. So we’ve decided to open up the B&S About Movies Drive-In where, each Friday afternoon at 11 AM […]
The Incoherents (2020)
“The alternative/independent rock scene that exploded in the late ’80s/early ’90s was a period we hold dear to our hearts. The music created during that stretch still has great influence today, as the descendants of Nirvana, The Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Replacements, Radiohead and their compatriots are everywhere on rock radio.” I’ve couldn’t have said […]
Tombstone Rashomon (2020)
If you loved the music of the Clash and the Sex Pistols, you loved the movies of Alex Cox. Alex Cox was punk. Alex Cox’s movies were college de rigueur in the ‘80s. No self-respecting lover of punk music and underground film would have a music or movie collection without copies of the VHS and […]
Getaway (2020)
I first heard of this indie-budgeted homage to ‘70s drive-in horror films—written and directed by Lane Toran—courtesy of the horror-centric webzine Blood Disgusting back in 2016. As a teen, Toran found success as an actor on the WB Network (7th Heaven) and as an animated voice artist for the Disney and Nickelodeon Networks (Hey, Arnold!). […]
Revival (2020)
If Lin-Manuel Miranda can update the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton as a hip hop and R&B, pop and soul-infused musical, then why not the amazing journey of Jesus? That’s the question asked and passionately answered by director Daniel Green, who made his theatrical debut with the Dylan McDermott (you know me: if […]
It All Begins With a Song (2020)
The musician, both known or unknown, before they get into that studio: it begins at 3 AM at the kitchen table with a notepad and a guitar; it begins with that song written by a lone soul who, if they recorded their own music, they’d be bigger than Elvis or Steven Tyler of Aerosmith. And […]
Louder Than Love (2012)
For Kurt Cobain: February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994 Before Nirvana, the Spin Doctors, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Pearl Jam, no one knew the meaning of grunge, or even cared where Seattle was: flannel was a fashion no-no. Do you remember the days of post-modern and cutting-edge rock, when everyone wore black […]
Trees Lounge (1996)
In tribute to Kurt Cobain: February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994 There are two reasons (of many) why I love Trees Lounge: First: It serves as the screenwriting and directing debut by one of my favorite actors: Steve Buscemi. He’s the type of actor who appears in huge, major studio tent poles—like Armageddon and […]
S.F.W. (1994)
In tribute to Kurt Cobain: February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994 First, there was Rick Van Ryan, the malcontent, social injustice warrior VJ of Incident at Channel Q. Then, when the metal ’80s buckled to the grungy ’90s, the Catcher In the Rye-styled, disenfranchised Generation X’ers of America needed a new hero: they got […]
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