S#x Acts (a.k.a. Six Acts) ★★☆☆☆ Dir: Jonathan Gurfinkel Tribeca Films 96 minutes North American release in select theaters on December 6, 2013. Available via On Demand and iTunes. Gili (Sivan Levy) is a pretty, dark-haired teen who has just transferred to a new high school, and is already …
The Monster and the Ape #8 Death in the Dark Previously! Everyone finally figured out Ernst was disguised as Dr. Draper all along! Ken gets smug about it! A giant gorilla tosses Babs around a little! And that’s about it! For those of you playing The Monster and the …
The Monster and the Ape #7: A Scream in the Night For those playing The Monster and the Ape home game, this episode should begin at about 2:06:30 in the OV Guide version. And again, my apologies for missing last week and being late this week; anyone who has been …
This is the SBBN entry for The Late Films Blogathon, hosted by David Cairns at Shadowplay. Check out all the other terrific entries here! *** Given that one can’t discuss Norma Shearer’s career without the word “nepotism” being uttered at least once, it’s no surprise that her brother Douglas suffers …
This is the SBBN entry for The What A Character! Blogathon, hosted by Once Upon a Screen, Outspoken & Freckled, and today’s host Paula at Paula’s Cinema Club. There are a ton of terrific articles spanning the three-day ‘thon, so please check them all out! *** It’s difficult to …
The Monster and the Ape #4 The Fatal Search For those of you playing The Monster and the Ape Home Game, the episode should start at approximately 1 hour 10 minutes in the OV Guide video. This chapter begins with our narrator, an obvious espresso fiend and probably the …
This is the SBBN entry for the Hitchcock Halloween Blogathon, hosted by Backlots. Check out their blog today for all the great entries — and Happy Halloween, everyone! *** Charlie Newton (Theresa Wright) has decided in a fit of late-teen pique that her family life needs some shaking up, that …
This article on The Tomb of Ligeia is the SBBN entry for Nitrate Diva’s fantabulous Vincent Price Blogathon, held October 25 through 27th. Check out all the terrific entries! *** It is a clear, cold day in the early winter of 1838, and Verden Fell, current owner of the Castle …
This is the SBBN entry for the 4th annual Italian Horror Blogathon hosted by our good friend Kevin at Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies. The ‘thon runs for a week, so keep checking in! *** Actress Carroll Baker spent 1967 reeling from a series of Hollywood setbacks, all of which began, …
“I’m not standoffish, I’m inaccessible. Always have been.” Al Pacino as Phil Spector in David Mamet’s Phil Spector (2013) Just past the clumsily-worded disclaimer that opens Phil Spector is a movie that makes very little sense. Its title, its subject matter, its very existence is utterly dependent on the …
