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.
Unlike Hal Holbrook, Adam and Sam aren’t phoning it in as they discuss the gender bent whodunit slasher from 1982, Girls Nite Out (AKA The Scaremaker). You can listen to the show anywhere you find podcasts, including Spreaker and Spotify. Email us at nightmareusapod@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @nightmareusapod Follow Adam on Letterboxd: @ashursey Follow Sam on Letterboxd: @bandsaboutmovie Visit Sam’s […]
Earth’s Moon has become home to Moonbase Alpha, a bustling scientific research colony nestled securely in the crater Plato. Staffed by over 300 personnel from Earth, the base serves as the operational hub for deep-space expeditions and acts as a watchdog for massive vaults of atomic waste stored on the Moon’s far side. When magnetic […]
An early effort by Beverly and Ferd Sebastian, The Single Girls (also known by alternate titles Bloody Friday and Private School) occupies a fascinating transitional space in exploitation movies. While the sexual content itself tends to lean surprisingly chaste for its premise, the film compensates with a genuinely compelling concept that bridges the gap between […]
Week 9 (Aug 16 – 22) – Cinema of Transgression: “none shall emerge unscathed” -Nick Zedd Acting as an unflinching, guerrilla-style love letter and farewell card to Manhattan’s most infamous thoroughfare, Richard Kern’s short film plunges headfirst into the chaotic, neon-drenched underbelly of early-1980s Times Square. The picture captures a relentless, documentarian drift down 42nd Street, interspersing raw […]
Arriving nearly a decade after the 1977 original, Young Lady Chatterley II trades the solemn, literary melancholy of D.H. Lawrence’s source material for a bright, breezy and unapologetic 1980s sex farce. Directed by Alan Roberts (The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood), the film captures that specific period of the 1980s when softcore movies ruled both video […]
Week 9 (Aug 16 – 22) – Cinema of Transgression: “none shall emerge unscathed” -Nick Zedd The film follows Max Menace (Eric Mitchell, a foundational figure of the No Wave cinema movement), a mysterious, bleached-blond European secret agent who touches down in New York City wearing a sharp white suit and black tie for a job that no […]
Three super-kicking rogues — Kim King (Bobby Kim), Pong Macau (Hwang Jang-Lee) and Sintaro (Kwan Yuen-Moon — hatch a plan to steal two million dollars stashed inside a wooden Buddha, originally sent by the Red Chinese to their comrades in Hong Kong. Of course, they aren’t the only ones after the cash, as a ruthless […]
When Seth’s estranged brother is murdered, Jessica must figure out if a cursed ruby from India is responsible. Season 4, Episode 14: Curse of the Daanau (February 7, 1988) It turns out that our favorite Cabot Cove doctor, Dr. Seth Hazlitt, has a brother named Richard whom he’s been estranged from for the past 30 […]
Week 9 (Aug 16 – 22) – Cinema of Transgression: “none shall emerge unscathed” -Nick Zedd Neurotic Guilford housewife Peggy Gravel (Mink Stole) and her loyal housekeeper Grizelda Brown (Jean Hill) find themselves on the run after brutally murdering Peggy’s abusive husband. Following a chaotic detainment by a cross-dressing police officer, they are slapped with an ultimatum: face […]
The ultimate virile warrior — the German version of Hercules — Siegfried (Raimund Harmstorf), alongside his clumsy manservant Hansel, has grand ambitions. They take him to Castle Burgundy with hopes of marrying the comely Kriemhild (Sybil Danning). However, Castle Burgundy’s ruler, King Gunther, has a complicated problem. Gunther wants to marry the fierce Warrior Queen […]
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