B&S About Movies is all about, well, movies. It's owned and operated by Sam Panico. He is the sole proprietor and chief writer. All others are guest contributors.
A band of hyper-serious, free-loving student anarchists marches into the woods to workshop a manifesto against their hopelessly uptight, stick-in-the-mud campus dean (Riger Gentry). Naturally, this heavy-duty socio-political planning session immediately devolves into a sprawling forest sex-romp. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the dean’s redheaded wife (Luanne Roberts) is quietly leading a sexual revolution of […]
In this episode, Sam and Adam hop on an airboat and sail down to Florida to take in the sights of William Grefè’s Mako: The Jaws of Death. Apologies in advance to the residents of St. Louis, Florida, and possibly Wisconsin. You can currently watch The Jaws of Death on Arrow Player (along with a bevy of other […]
King Cromwell (Richard Lynch, Bad Dreams, God Told Me To) has come the whole way to Tomb Island to find Xusia (Richard Moll, contractually obligated to be in all 1980’s sword and sorcery movies, although a bad reaction to the contacts needed for his makeup caused Moll to only physically appear in the opening scene), a dead […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Hooch was on the CBS Late Movie on November 27, 1981 and January 20, 1982. “It’s illegal…it’s immoral…and it’s so damned good!” In the 1970s—hell, well into the late 80s—my grandfather drove an El Camino. He kept that beast in working condition long after most had been reclaimed by the earth, even if […]
BONUS! Watch a Roger Corman movie to celebrate his 100th birthday! Directed by Bert L. Dragin (Summer Camp Nightmare) and co-written by Dragin and Robert McDonnell, this is part of the Concorde/New Horizons time of Roger Corman. It’s a haunted house movie, home invasion, teen drama, street-violence epic, and slasher all at once. The Cates […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Daring Dobermans was on the CBS Late Movie on May 9, 1975, July 29, 1976 and September 9, 1977. Following up on The Doberman Gang, director Byron Ross Chudnow returns for The Daring Dobermans, proving once and for all that while humans are greedy, incompetent and thoroughly corrupt, canine actors wearing collar […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Captain America II: Death Too Soon was on the CBS Late Movie on December 18, 1981. Airing on November 23 and 24, 1979 — the same nights that Salem’s Lot was also on CBS — with the new creative team of director Iván Nagy (perhaps better known as the boyfriend of Hollywood madam […]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lee Coombs is the founder and editor of Please Rewind Movies, an independent movie publication celebrating cinema past and present, with a particular love for the films many of us grew up watching. He writes about horror, cult movies, forgotten favourites and the stories behind the films that stay with us. Read […]
BONUS! Watch a Roger Corman movie to celebrate his 100th birthday! One of ten movies Roger Corman made in Argentina in the 80s, and one of the first for his new Concorde Pictures, this is another of Corman’s attempts to save the environment by recycling. Or recycling footage from Sorceress and Deathstalker. As writer Ed […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Face of Fu Manchu was on the CBS Late Movie on August 6, 1974 and July 31, 1975. Directed by Don Sharp and produced by the notorious Harry Alan Towers, this British-West German co-production kicked off a five-part cinematic franchise. Starring Christopher Lee as the devilish mastermind and Nigel Green as his […]
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