Ben Nagy reviews ‘Garden Party Massacre’: Itโs comedy over carnage when a guy with a pickaxe shows up
So before we get to the latest installment of The Screening Room, thereโs a question that Iโve been struggling with. Itโs not one of those easy ones. Stuff like, โWhy do bad things happen to good people?โ Or, โWho shot JFK?โ (Which, by the way, Joe Bob has already solved if you know where to […]
The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 1: Lucio Fulci Night โ Zombie and The Beyond
Live from Grapevine, Texas, it was the Last Drive-In premiere! Or should I say, The Late Drive-In? Boy, it sure was a shock to some peopleโs systems when the lawn chairs, cinder blocks and red cooler were dispensed with for a week and instead we got a talk show set, a plethora of guests and […]
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 […]
