Ben Nagy reviews ‘Fall of Usher’: Hubbie-winning director gets all Poe-tic on us
The one sure trait that can be used to identify the truly great writers is the flexibility of their work to be understood and adapted by the skilled and the unskilled alike. Great writing is like one of those six-cylinder Mopar engines from the early 1970s. You could be driving down the road going about […]
The official 2022 Joe Bob’s Jamboree Wrap-Up Post as Composed by the Guy at the Merch Table
Before we get to the good stuff: If you had the Saturday photo opportunity with Joe Bob at the drive-in, follow this link to download your picture. If you had the Sunday photo opportunity with Joe Bob and Darcy at the drive-in, follow this link to download your picture. ALSO: Buy a 2022 Jamboree shirt! […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Wolves’: Lonely Teen Wolf Just Looking for a Place to Call Home
Eight or so years ago, writer/director David Hayter tried to do for lycanthropy what the Twilight series did for vampires in this week’s flick, Wolves. Our troubled romantic lead, a senior high school quarterback named Cayden Slaughter (Lucas Till) starts punching through this smack-talking opponent’s helmet after a late hit during a game, so he […]
The Last Drive-In: Season 4, Week 10: Uncle Sam and Nightbreed
Art by T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138 on Twitter) In conjunction with the Fourth of July holiday, the latest season of the Last Drive-In went out with a bang similar to the one that put the producers of Uncle Sam on the front page of the local paper where the flick was filmed because its climactic explosive […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘American Beast’: Long-Term Family Land Investment Harbors a Monstrous Curse
You can be really smart, but also be genetically pre-disposed to stink at real estate. This is one of the premises of this week’s flick, the somewhat awkwardly titled American Beast, which deals with a creature created after a dispute between two Indigenous tribes about a century and a half before the establishment of the […]
The Last Drive-In: Season Four, Week 9: Head of the Family and Habit
Art by T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138 on Twitter) Sad and happy. Dark and light. Big and little. East Coast and West Coast. “Indie” and studio. Slimy tongue boobie licking and aardvarking against a NYC monument. Surely never has a more stark listing in contrasts been compiled in the annals of American film analysis before now, and […]
Last Call blog: The Last Drive-In — Season 4, Weeks 7 & 8: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker, The Baby, The Stepfather and The Freakmaker
Art by T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138 on Twitter) Sorry for the absence of a Last Call blog post last week. Very few words could do justice to the experience of Arrested Development Week when we got to see one of Big Steve King’s Top Five faves (circa 1984) and the, um, unique experience that was The […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Bloody Summer Camp’: Get a bunch of counselors, throw em in a cabin, kill, repeat
Summer’s starting, classes are finit-o, teachers can kick up their heels and not cry as much in the evenings five days a week and parents now have to meet the great challenge of finding places where they can dump off their kids so they can continue to work while school’s out. The big questions for […]
The Last Drive-In: Season Four, Week Six: The Monster Club and Hellbender
Art by T.J. Denton @TDenton_1138 on Twitter. As we start down the hill toward the conclusion of Season 4, we got a rant for the ages and a rave to die for. And that was just during the first feature. Long-timers on the Patreon would know that Joe Bob did The Monster Club in his […]
The Last Drive-In: Season Four, Week Five: Slaughterhouse and Tenebrae
Art by T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138) on Twitter. We officially hit the halfway point in the fourth season of The Last Drive-In with “Junk Food Night,” a double-feature celebration of animal processing, hot dogs (neither of which are Darcy’s favorite topic by any stretch) and giallo-colored mustard. The first flick was Slaughterhouse, a throwback late-stage slasher […]