🎞️ Drive-In Movie Reviews
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Spree’: Ride-share driver runs amok and streams the whole dang thing
An astute commenter on Facebook a few months back reminded me that April was Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Here in Ohio, that now means that using a phone while driving is a pull-overable offense. Post-pandemic,…
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Thaw’: It’s what you get when you blend ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ ‘Cabin Fever’ and ‘The Thing’ and add 100% more Val Kilmer
For about three years there in the late oughts around the time Arthur C. Clarke said that Roy Scheider was supposed to use a monolith to turn Jupiter into a second sun, thus saving us…
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Recoil’: Stone Cold faces off with Danny Trejo in revenge-on-crime flick
As usual, I’m running late again with another one of my themed flick reviews. I really, really wanted to get this one up in time for “Stone Cold” Steve Austin Day on 3/16, but this…
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Red 11’: In which a big-budget filmmaker heads back to his roots to tell his low-budget origin story
It’s the stuff that 1990s filmmaking legends are made of. Back in the old days when a guy named Tarantino was transitioning from being a video clerk to a guy who would become an in-demand…
Ben Nagy reviews ‘BKO: Bangkok Knockout’: Kung-fu fight club goes on rescue mission against ninjas
We’re closing out the first-ever Kung Fu-bruary with one last ultraviolent kick to the jaw. Since absolutely NO ONE (except you 50 or so devoted people) wanted to read about a near kid-friendly kung-fu comedy…
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Kung Fu League’: Four legendary kung-fu characters grant pining, whining wimp his wish
We’re back with two more kung-fu flick reviews to close out our inaugural Kung Fu-bruary. (The month went by quick, no?) Kung Fu League from 2018 takes a typical plot of a sad-sack nerd dreamer…