The most deserving game
So apparently there are people in the world whose idea of a good time is to go out and kill something. Guns, knives, crossbows, spears, hooks, traps—it’s all good, as long as an animal ends up dead....
View ArticleUnpacking our portmanteaux
Anthology films – or portmanteau films, or omnibus films, as they are also called – have been with us almost since the dawn of the motion picture industry. This form of film-making can be a tricky...
View ArticleCocktails & Capers: The End Result of a Year of Silence
My website has been silent for a long time, but that’s because I was writing this. Page after page of rambling on everything from: Sweet Smell of Success, Billie Holiday, and old New York bars; Louis...
View ArticleAnimaniacs
Sure, we all love a good werewolf film; but why should wolves have all the fun? Besides, let’s face it, when it comes to the beasts within—it’s a jungle in there… So join us as we take a look at a...
View ArticleResolving to be resolute
You’re probably expecting another New Year’s post full of excuses and apologies, right? I think we can take that as read by now. Instead, I thought we’d try to accentuate the positive: this is –...
View ArticleThe china anniversary syndrome
Terrifying but true: 2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the B-Masters. There have been many changes across those years, but our love of weird and wonderful films and our desire to...
View ArticleThe china anniversary syndrome: Part 2
It’s that time again… For the first part of our year-long celebration of our 20th anniversary, we tackled what we called our “core competencies”, that is, those topic areas we had in mind when...
View ArticleThe china anniversary syndrome: Part 3
The third part of our year-long anniversary presents an opportunity that some of us are sorely in need of… This time around, the Roundtable will be focused on those films that we always meant to...
View ArticleThe china anniversary syndrome: Part 4
So far our Roundtables this year have been all about celebrating the past; this time it’s about looking to the future—whether by adding a new section, taking the existing ones in new directions, or...
View ArticleA damned nice thing, the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life…
…to quote my old friend Arthur Wellesley. I know that you guys like starting the year with a fireworks image, but this time you went very close to not having one—because we went very close to not...
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