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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....

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Unpacking 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...

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Cocktails & 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...

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Animaniacs

  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...

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Resolving 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 –...

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The 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...

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The 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...

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The 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...

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The 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...

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A 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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