A History of Joe Bob in Cleveburg
Come see Joe Bob live in the town that started it all
All about the First Joe Bob’s Jamboree from someone who was there for most of it
All about the four-day ‘Drive-In Woodstock’ featuring How Rednecks Saved Hollywood, Mutant Fest, a live Last Drive-In and the Drive-In of Dread at the Mahoning Drive-In On the first day, the Mutants saw How Rednecks Saved Hollywood, Burt Reynolds at his peak (cause Darcy was dressed up like him) and, oh yeah, the Mahoning Drive-In […]
Ben Nagy Plunges into ‘Backwoods’: Trussed Cheerleader Fights Lumpy-Headed Creep
A high-school cheerleader gets abducted and tries to survive an encounter with a lumpy-headed creep who lives in a shack in the middle of the wilderness in “Backwoods.”
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Wretch’: Don’t Smoke That Stuff in the Woods
It becomes you or you become it,. Or maybe it’s the other way around?
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Dark Within’: Cabin Freakouts and Skull Invaders
You’d feel the same if they were trying to make an interdimensional portal out of you.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Landing Lake’: Can anybody fly around here?
A group of four accented Euro antenna repair folks traipse out into the wilderness in a van on an assignment to fix some sort of messed-up satellite repeater device in an unidentified location in Landing Lake. If you like long walks in the woods, men from around the United Kingdom shouting profanity in various accents […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Midnight Runner’: Senioritis is contagious … and violent
The new kid in the neighborhood with a violent past struggles to fit in with everyone else in Midnight Runner, a movie that’s reminiscent of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, with a synthesizer-fueled soundtrack but a lot younger cast. Ian (Ben Weinswig) had an incident six years ago that landed him in juvenile detention – his […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Dolls’: Once these toys get possessed, it’s hard to play with em
My daughter (she’s in second grade) went through a period where she was terrified of killer dolls, and it didn’t help that her older brother was talking up the Child’s Play flicks and The Con-juring (I spell it like that because that’s how he pronounced it, no editorializing intended) to increase her terror. She got […]
Ben Nagy reviews Clinton Road ’til he cain’t no more
Yeah, I’m gonna glue my eyeballs to the old Clinton RoadI’m gonna watch ’til I can’t no more Ice-T plays an exposition-delivering night club owner and we get six clueless people wandering around the woods near where this guy’s wife disappeared in a quest for the dreaded “closure” for himself and his missing wife’s sister […]
Ben Nagy reviews Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee brings the writer’s poem to modern times as a painter stumbles upon a coastal mystery.
