PETER HUJAR'S DAY, the new movie by Memphis' own Ira Sachs, opens here Friday. Here's some info: bit.ly/3LF5H6V
11.11.2025 19:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@johnbeifuss.bsky.social
Longtime (but now occasional) film critic, fulltime reporter for the Memphis daily newspaper, The Commercial Appeal. Earned first writing paycheck from Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine.
PETER HUJAR'S DAY, the new movie by Memphis' own Ira Sachs, opens here Friday. Here's some info: bit.ly/3LF5H6V
11.11.2025 19:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Linda Cristal, Shirley Jones, John Fordβs TWO RODE TOGETHER (1961).
11.11.2025 14:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0TRAP HOUSE (drug police action, with Dave Bautista); KING IVORY (more drug police action); KAANTHA (a thriller from India); and CHRISTMAS KARMA (a Bollywood adaptation of 'A Christmas Carol'). 3/3
10.11.2025 22:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0KEEPER, the second move this year from horror specialist Osgood Perkins (his last, in February, was THE MONKEY); the bizarre-sounding THE CARPENTER'S SON, described as "psychological horror" inspired by an apocryphal gospel, with Nic Cage as, essentially, Jesus... 2/3
10.11.2025 22:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0New movies in Memphis, 11/14: PETER HUJAR'S DAY, from Memphis director Ira Sachs; Edgar Wright's remake of THE RUNNING MAN; magicians' heist sequel NOW YOU SEE ME: NOW YOU DON'T; a reissue of WICKED, prior to the sequel's 11/21 release .... 1/3
10.11.2025 22:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hometown movie notice: Memphis director Ira Sachs' much-acclaimed new movie, PETER HUJAR'S DAY, opens here Friday, 11/14, at the Malco Ridgeway Four.
10.11.2025 19:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Pontotoc, Mississippiβs 8-foot-2 Max Palmer is the βMan-Apeβ in KILLER APE (1953), the 12th Jungle Jim movie. Palmer later gave up acting and alcohol to be an evangelist, touring as the βGoliath for Christ.β
06.11.2025 19:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0he kid who sliced Herman Munster with a scalpel in PET SEMATARY? Yeah, he's gonna be there, along with former co-stars of Chucky, Freddy and Jason, at the second annual Memphis Monster Con, this weekend: bit.ly/47I9dVB
05.11.2025 18:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0One of the βGiant Peopleβ in JUNGLE JIM IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND (1952).
04.11.2025 17:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The extent of our Halloween decorations. Old school (for an old ghoul).
31.10.2025 15:05 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Jonathan Frid, in full Barnabas regalia, is the 'Mystery Guest' on WHAT'S MY LINE, 1970.
31.10.2025 14:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Memphis Art Museum - the much-anticipated new Downtown riverfront location for the historic Memphis Brooks Museum - is set to open December 2026: bit.ly/3X2cnhR
30.10.2025 18:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Plus, 3 from India: MADHANIYAN; MASS JATHARA; and BAAHUBALI: THE EPIC, a reedit-into-a-single-feature of the two 'Baahubali' films made by director S.S. Rajamouli before his 2022 international breakthrough, RRR. 3/3
29.10.2025 21:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0SELF-HELP (horror that satirizes the 'self-actualization' movement); VIOLENT ENDS (vengeance in the modern Ozarks); DOWN TOWN (action-comedy in the 'underbelly' of Los Angeles) ... 2/3
29.10.2025 21:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0New movies in Memphis, 10/31: Yorgos Lanthimos' BUGONIA; STITCH HEAD (horror-themed family-friendly animation, as in 'Frankenweenie'); reissues of BACK TO THE FUTURE and the original TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE; CHAIN REACTIONS, a documentary about the aforementioned film... 1/3
29.10.2025 21:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Interesting to watch the Springsteen movie and the new Frankenstein on successive days; they share a lot of themes, and conclude with very similar intimate father/son scenes...
29.10.2025 21:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Was not expecting a DRACULA - PRINCE OF DARKNESS reference in the first ten minutes of del Toroβs FRANKENSTEIN.
29.10.2025 21:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0on Vance Avenue
29.10.2025 19:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Everybodyβs a critic. (Dan OβHerlihy to tavern keeper, SWORD OF VENUS, 1953.)
24.10.2025 11:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Only in Memphis: Carla Thomas, the Stax Queen of Soul, backed by Hi Rhythm, performing at NBA halftime. (And doing βTramp,β no less, with Jerome Chism in the Otis Redding part.)
23.10.2025 14:04 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Dick Tracy vs. Superman, round 2: Ralph Byrd and George Reeves in THUNDER IN THE PINES (1948).
23.10.2025 14:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I love Chicago.
21.10.2025 11:44 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They leave money on the table the way I leave half-read New Yorkers.
21.10.2025 11:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Iβm kind of afraid of that, based on the trailer β¦
21.10.2025 11:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0REGRETTING YOU (Allison Williams in a family drama); CHAINSAW MAN: THE MOVIE - REZE ARC (more inexplicably titled [to the non-congnoscenti] anime; DUDE (from India). 3/3
20.10.2025 21:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0QUEENS OF THE DEAD (new to me - per IMDb: "Drag queens and club kids battle zombies craving brains during a zombie outbreak at their drag show in Brooklyn" - Cordova [??] only); SHELBY OAKS (not a Collierville housing development, but more horror) ... 2/3
20.10.2025 21:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0New movies in Memphis, 10/24: Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN (Ridgeway and Collierville only, since it arrives on Netflix two weeks later); SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (everywhere, including IMAX); Linklater's BLUE MOON, with Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart (Ridgeway only) ... 1/3
20.10.2025 21:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0memphis no kings rally
18.10.2025 18:08 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1oh man they did it for real
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