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B.o.Y — The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part. V: Lavelle Roby,...
To once again recapitulate what we've already said in:Part I (June 2022), The non-babe of note of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: Princess Livingston Part II (July 2022), Background Babe of Beyond the...
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Me and the Mob (USA, 1994)
Frank Rainone's directorial debut was filmed and originally released as Who Do I Gotta Kill?, but we assume it was re-titled somewhere along the way in a desperate mockbuster attempt to ride on the...
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Short Film: Season's Greetings (USA, 1996)
It's Halloween today, the day that all candy companies and greedy dentists love even more than the average Jane and Joe Schmoe do (the latter, after all, have to buy the candy and pay the dental bills...
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Buried Alive (South Africa, 1989)
(Spoilers) Not to be mistaken with Frank Darabont's directorial debut of the following year, the TV movie Buried Alive (trailer at the bottom of page), although it often is.Trailer toGérard Kikoïne's...
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B.o.Y.: Background Babe of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Part VI – Lavelle...
To more or less repeat what we have written in almost every entry of out multi-part Babe of Yesteryear review of the babes of Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls:Fifty-two years ago and five...
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Short Film: The Dirk Diggler Story (USA, 1988)
"All I ever wanted was a cool '78 'Vette and a house in the country." Dirk Diggler (Michael Stein) When Boogie Nights (trailer), the sophomore feature film release by Paul Thomas Anderson (born 26...
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Aquaslash (Canada, 2019)
Great title. But great titles also hold great promise, and great promise is seldom easy to meet. And in that regard, Aquaslash — scribe and director Renaud Gauthier's sophomore feature film, six years...
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Short Film: Black XXX-Mas (Belgium, 1999)
"There are no good and bad guys... There's just bad guys and guys that are even worse."Little Red (Rochelle Gadd) Here's a violently surreal and blackly humorous Christmas oddity from Belgium, an...
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Silent Night, Bloody Night (USA, 1970/72)
Silent Night, Bloody Night is the second feature film of director Theodore Gershuny (30 Oct 1933 – 16 May 2007), whose only other completed feature-length cinema release of note is the arty grindhouse...
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B.o.Y.: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Part VII – Samantha Scott
To more or less repeat what we have written in almost every previous entry of out multi-part Babe of Yesteryear review of the babes of Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: Fifty-two years ago...
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The Ten "Best" of 2022
GIF taken from our Short Film of the Month of April 2012,The Cliché Family in Televisionland (USA, c. 1965). As we pointed out last year in our blog entry More or Less "Best of" 2021, "Best of" is...
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Abby (USA, 1974)
We saw this prime slab of Blaxploitation trash as a pubescent and found the entire experience amazing, so we'll admit that we are somewhat prejudiced in the film's favor. But hell's bells, let us stand...
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No Tomorrow (USA, 1999)
Without doubt, No Tomorrow would have been an indefinitely better movie had a monster suddenly popped out of the woodwork and bitten off a few heads. Not that a monster would have in any logical manner...
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B.O.Y: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part VIII: Karen Smith
To more or less repeat what we have written in all previous seven entries of out multi-part Babe of Yesteryear review of the babes of Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls:Fifty-two years ago and...
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Lost (USA, 2004)
Be careful which way you turn. It's always a pleasant surprise when you pop in a DVD of an unknown film that you expect to suck and it doesn't. In the case of Lost, we would even say the low-budget...
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Short Film: The Cat with Hands (Great Britain, 2001)
"Last night as I slumbered I had a strange dream, one that seemed to bring distant friends near. I dreamt of the faces of people I loved, and I awoke with an 'eart full of cheer." Old Man (Livy...
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Beat the Devil (USA, 1953)
Beat the Devil is a fluffy little film, meanderingly enjoyable, but as that it has long fallen into the public domain, the quality of the sound (at least on the no-name DVD we watched) is less than...
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B.O.Y: The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part IX: The Five Mysterians
"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ Meyer To more or less repeat what we have written in all previous entries of out multi-part Babe of Yesteryear review of...
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The Mighty Peking Man (Hong Kong, 1977)
(Spoilers?) A cast of thousands! Over the years, the original King Kong (1933 / trailer) has inspired more imitations, riffs, sequels and remakes than COVID has variants, and some of those big ape...
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Short Film: Kiseichuu no Ichiya / The Midnight Parasites (Japan, 1972)
Thank you once again, BoingBoing, for introducing us to a groovy animator and a groovy short film, a groovy short film that is but one groovy short film of many groovy short films that the groovy...
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