Frank Mandosa

Award graphics stating that the short film AUTONOMOUS won Best International Short at the Dunwich Horror Fest.

Always fun to be recognized! #film #movies #filmfestivals

#OTD The “Chicago Seven” were acquitted of conspiracy charges but found guilty of inciting a riot at the 1968 DNC. Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed 2020’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, starring Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen, and Michael Keaton).

A ★★★★ review of Frankenstein (2025) We all know there’s no shortage of adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Gothic tale, ranging from films to television miniseries to parody (looking lovingly at you, Herman Munster). When I first heard that t...

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Released nationwide in the U.S. #OTD in 1938 b/f opening in Europe & Canada that March: the screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn & Cary Grant. Fun fact: Grant was afraid of the leopard, so Hepburn put a stuffed one through a vent in his dressing room. She said he hit the ceiling.

A ★★★★ review of Bugonia (2025) This kind of film isn’t everyone’s cup of cappuccino, but you know what you’re getting when you sit down for something by Yorgos Lanthimos: an outrageous premise, eccentric characters, a bombastic mus...

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YouTube video by A&B Horror Movies A&B Horror: All Eyes with Filmmakers Todd and Alex Greenlee - Gravitas Ventures & Homefront Pictures

A great experience to guest on A&B Horror Movies on YouTube to join host Aaron in his interview with filmmakers Todd and Alex Greenlee, the brothers behind the indie horror film All Eyes! youtu.be/cTnPUyX8xZ8

Ep 49 out now - two 1989 comedies, Parenthood, directed by Ron Howard, and Uncle Buck, directed by John Hughes! Plus, poll results, entertainment news, the cooking segment Cinemunch, and interactive listener trivia! Just click here: linktr.ee/reelsofcinem...

#RIP From To Kill a Mockingbird to The Godfather to Apocalypse Now to his Oscar-winning performance in Tender Mercies, Robert Duvall made his mark.

#OTD in 1922: the worldwide premiere of #NOSFERATU in the Netherlands at The Hague! 104 years with this German silent classic, loosely adapted from Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
#germanexpressionism #filmhistory

A ★★★½ review of F1 (2025) I don’t want to say this is Top Gun on wheels … but this is Top Gun on wheels. From the cocky, ‘play by my own rules’ protagonist (Pitt, charming and fun to watch as he usually is, but he’s played thi...

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And the Golden Age of Hollywood brings on the Valentine love. #goldenageofhollywood #Hollywood #ValentinesDay

Released #OTD in 1931 in the U.S. nationwide before opening four days later in the U.K., the Valentines Day favorite Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi as the King of Cuddles. Marketed as “The Story of the Strangest Passion the World Has Ever Known.” 🤨🤔

It was cool meeting Lar Park Lincoln, aka Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood’s ‘Tina,’ at Count Orlock’s Nightmare Gallery in Salem, MA in October 2017. Happy #Fridaythe13th !!

On this Friday the 13th, how’s this: the 1980 original has Kevin Bacon, Harry Crosby (Bing’s son), and Rex Everhart (Belle’s father in Disney’s animated Beauty and the Beast). For more on the first two in the slasher series, dust off ep 9 of Reels of Cinema at: linktr.ee/reelsofcinem...

Coming in ep 49: the paragons of comedic child care in two 1989 flicks, Parenthood and Uncle Buck! Vote/have your comment read on the show: which character would you trust to babysit the younguns?
A.) Gil (Steve Martin)
B.) Uncle Buck (John Candy)
C.) Nathan (Rick Moranis)
D.) none of these yahoos!

Jessica Gunning (Emmy, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and SAG winner for Baby Reindeer) will play Cass Elliot in an upcoming biopic that I’ve waited over half my life for!!

James Van Der Beek, star of 'Dawson's Creek', dies at 48 following cancer battle James Van Der Beek, who starred on the teen TV drama 'Dawson's Creek' and movies like 'Varsity Blues,' has died at 48 following a battle with colorectal cancer.

Rest in power, good sir. Thanks for TV memories to last a lifetime but even more for your advocacy. ew.com/james-van-de...

Ep 48 out now! Writer-actor-producer Erin Aine & writer-director-producer Kyle Valle guest to talk about their 2024 horror-comedy ZombieCON Vol. 1 - plus, poll results, the cooking segment Cinemunch, interactive listener trivia! Just click here: linktr.ee/reelsofcinem...

On this date in 1960: the Hollywood Walk of Fame launched with a groundbreaking ceremony. Fun facts: only Gene Autry has a star for all 5 recognized fields: film, TV, radio, live performance & music. Oscar winner Joanne Woodward was inducted in 1958 before construction even began.

Born #OTD: MGM’s epitome of glamour, Academy Award nominee Lana Turner! Fun fact: in an appearance on The Phil Donahue Show in the early 80s, she disdainfully called the 1981 remake of her classic The Postman Always Rings Twice as “p**nographic trash.”

Just some of the films with incredible scores composed by John Williams, born #OTD … winner of 26 Grammys (76 nominations), 3 Emmys (6 nods), 4 Golden Globes (26 nods), and 5 Oscars out of freakin’ 54. Take that, Meryl Streep!

Born #OTD - the quintessential onscreen teen rebel, James Dean. Fun fact: he played Malcolm in a UCLA student production of Macbeth in 1950; the review singled him out as particularly bad. But by 1956, he was a 2-time #Oscar nominee (posthumously) and today remains a cultural icon.

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Released #OTD in NYC in 1940: Disney’s second animated feature, the sublimely dark, disturbing AF #Pinocchio … but there’s a singing cricket and an iconic song. #whenyouwishuponastar

Coming in ep 48: talking with co-writers Erin Aine (star) & Kyle Valle (director) about ZombieCON Vol. 1! Vote/have your comment read on the show: as cosplayers, what do you & your friends do?
A.) attack together
B.) spread out across the room
C.) hide, suck thumb, pray
D.) cosplay as zombie

‘Poltergeist’ Child Star Heather O’Rourke Doc ‘She Was Here’ Sets February Release, Unveils Trailer (EXCLUSIVE) Documentary about 'Poltergeist' star Heather O'Rourke arrives in February with family-approved film featuring never-seen archives.

Releasing on VOD and DVD on February 24, for anyone who is a Poltergeist fan. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

#OTD in 1919: silent film superstars Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, & D.W. Griffith formed the movie studio United Artists. They sold their shares by the mid-50s, but UA thrived, especially with James Bond. It was later subsumed into MGM but revived in 2018 as UA Digital Studios.

Released nationwide in the U.S. #OTD in 1938: the first full-length animated feature, Snow White! Fun fact: Lucille La Verne, who voiced the queen/old hag, removed her false teeth before her line readings for rougher sounding vocals.

Born #OTD: horror maestro George A. Romero (1982’s Creepshow, TV’s Tales from the Darkside, 1993’s The Dark Half) Pictured: Romero directing Judith O’Dea (‘Barbara’) for 1968’s Night of the Living Dead.

A ★★★★½ review of Send Help (2026) Sweet Lord, where to begin with this one? First - the cast. Rachel McAdams proves once more that she is one helluva actress, capable of making you laugh, get creeped out, cringe and grimace in discomf...

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Born #OTD in 1970: Warwick Davis, ‘Wicket’ the Ewok in Return of the Jedi, ‘Professor Flitwick‘ in Harry Potter, the title character in Willow, and scores of others!