Last Call Blog | Retro Review: In the Nineties, a Trip to ‘Dinosaur Island’ was a Good Way to Get Away
Joe Bob Briggs praises “Dinosaur Island,” a 1994 offering from the combined talents of Jim Wynorski and Fred Olen Ray. The co-directors not only showed off their movie-making skills, but showed off some enormous, well-rounded talents of another kind in this throwback to classic prehistoric flicks.
Last Call | Retro Review: Our pal Stuart Gordon got even kinkier when he headed “From Beyond”
In memory of the passing of the great drive-in director Stuart Gordon, we re-publish Joe Bob Briggs’ review of the black leather-and-glopola classic “From Beyond,” but first, a budgetary lesson about how the U.S. economy works.
Last Call | Retro Review: Pandemic Partying in ‘Masque of the Red Death’
Roger Corman isn’t above recycling his own stuff, as we found out when he produced this remake in 1989 of a movie that he originally directed in 1964. The older one had Vincent Price. This one has Patrick Macnee.
Last Call | Retro Review: In These Times, Jersey Zombie Flick ‘Biohazardous’ Speaks to Us
In this review originally syndicated on May 15, 2002, Joe Bob takes a look at the explosion of zombie flicks in the years since Night of the Living Dead and a New Jersey-based flick called “Biohazardous.”
Last Call | Retro Review: So Here’s What U.S.-Soviet Relations Were Like 35 Years Ago (And ‘Ghoulies’ Too!)
Joe Bob Briggs gives his first impression of a new era of U.S.-Soviet relations and he reviews a Gremlins ripoff that has a title that sounds like Goonies.
LAST CALL | Retro Review: Joe Bob takes on ‘Basket Case 2’
A retro Joe Bob review from March 2, 1990, takes a look at “Basket Case 2,” where we find out what Belial and his brother Duane have been doing since they hit the pavement at the end of the 1982 drive-in classic.
LAST CALL | Retro Review: Joe Bob Checks Out ‘Nightbreed’
Yep — the 1990s were 30 years ago, and while we await the start of Season Two-o of the Last Drive-In, we’re going to dust off some Joe Bob retro reviews. First up, the kinkiest man in England (Clive Barker) collaborates with the kinkiest man in Canada (David Cronenberg) for “Nightbreed.”
LAST CALL Film School | Black and White
What filmmakers do in the shadows
LAST CALL Film School | Intermission
Let’s all head to the lobby and grab ourselves a Lone Star
LAST CALL Film School | Score
They shoot, they score, Mutants win