Ben Nagy reviews ’30 Miles From Nowhere’: Things get tense for middle-aged college chums at funeral/reunion
Stop me if youโve heard this one before. A bunch of old school friends are brought together by the death of one of their old college pals, and that personโs passing gives them an opportunity to head out to a cabin in the woods. Yeah, itโs the premise of The Big Chill, which was one […]
Ben Nagy reviews โThe Gardenerโ: When Robert Bronziโs not handling plants, heโs wasting home-invading scum
Iโve kinda gotten behind on my Robert Bronzi flicks. If you donโt know who he is, heโs the 21st century Hungarian incarnation of Charles Bronson whose genre-flick career has taken off because he bears an uncanny resemblance to the Drive-In Hall-of-Famer. Bronson, for those of you who havenโt read Joe Bobโs old columns or gotten […]
Ben Nagy reviews โSpreeโ: 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, because Iโm one of those folks who has been re-indoctrinated into the experience of having a lengthy commute five days […]
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 from a nuclear war with the Soviets (whoops), Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert (theyโre still around but Roy isnโt), launched […]
Ben Nagy reviews โRecoilโ: Stone Cold faces off with Danny Trejo in revenge-on-crime flick
As usual, Iโm running late again with another one of my themed flick reviews. I really, really wanted to get this one up in time for โStone Coldโ Steve Austin Day on 3/16, but this research project came up for Joe Bob that involved a bunch of in-depth discussions about time-traveling rabbits and so I […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Red 11’: In which a big-budget filmmaker heads back to his roots to tell his low-budget origin story
Itโs 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 screenwriter and revered director, another guy named Robert Rodriguez also wanted to make a dang movie. Rodriguez, a Texas guy, […]
Ben Nagy reviews โBKO: Bangkok Knockoutโ: Kung-fu fight club goes on rescue mission against ninjas
Weโre 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 alliance flick, I shanโt make that mistake again. I mean, the last time there was so much disinterest in a […]
Ben Nagy reviews โKung Fu Leagueโ: Four legendary kung-fu characters grant pining, whining wimp his wish
Weโre 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 guy who has fantasies of overcoming the bully, escaping his mundane life and getting the girl โ a tale as […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Last Heist’: Whoโs more dangerous โ the robbers with guns or the guy who carves out eyeballs?
Weโre taking a brief one-review break from Kung Fu flicks to mark the 62nd Annual Henry Rollins Day that happened last week with a 2016 flick that features his most-recent lead starring role to date โ The Last Heist. Mike Mendez, director of Big Ass Spider! and Lavalantula, a couple of notable arachnid rampage flicks […]
The Last Drive-In | Joe Bob’s Vicious Vegas Valentine
Art by T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138 on Twitter. Visit his store). Rather than a repeat visit to Heartbreak Trailer Park, a special couple of Mutants allowed their nuptials to be turned into a little bit of โderanged performance artโ courtesy of Joe Bob (resplendent in Elvis garb โ he was taking notes when we were at […]
