Johnny Showtime: Wish List

 by JB

Yes, I am still a fan of physical media. Yes, I still love movies. Yes, I am still a 63-year-old curmudgeon.

Johnny Showtime: Mailbag

 by JB

Questions, comments, and great thoughts from my readers.

Johnny Showtime: THE GREAT GATSBY (1949)

 by JB

Found my Gatsby!

Johnny Showtime: JIMMY AND STIGGS

 by JB

Watch out! This is going to get goopy.

Johnny Showtime: RIP Regency Buenaventura

 by JB

What on earth will I do with my Tuesday nights?

Johnny Showtime: Return to the Drive-in!

 by JB

One thing we seldom talk about is motion picture EXHIBITION.

Johnny Showtime: Walt Walt Walt Walt Walt

 by JB

We had visitors this week. Patrick Bromley and his wonderful family left the comfort and convenience of F This Movie’s Midwest Offices and ventured West to visit our palatial branch office in Oxnard, California. Between you and me, I think he was checking up on us, making sure we were “keeping up the brand,” not serving Pepsi in our home theater, and a hundred other details only a man like Patrick would notice...

Johnny Showtime: Junesploitation 2025 Wrap-Up

 by JB

It was quite a month.

Johnny Showtimes: THE KILLER and HARD BOILED

 by JB

For today’s Junesploitation theme, you cannot do better than this pair of John Woo masterpieces.

Johnny Showtime: FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE

 by JB

Ten long years ago, I wrote about a Lucio Fulci film that was not a cult horror film favorite.

Johnny Showtimes: Jess Franco Double Feature

 by JB

The two films we discuss today are like opposite sides of the same coin. But it's a coin that inexplicably features naked ladies on both sides.

Johnny Showtime: DEATH RACE 2000

 by JB

How’d you like to see Kwai Chang Caine from Kung Fu play Frankenstein?

Johnny Showtime: THE WIZ

 by JB

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Wiz opening on Broadway, Fathom Events screened the perhaps beloved film nationwide on May 18 and 21.

Johnny Showtime: KING OF KINGS

 by JB

What if I told you there was a new movie playing in theaters right now starring Kenneth Branagh, Uma Thurman, Oscar Isaac, Mark Hamill, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Forest Whitaker? Would you want to go? Of course, you would want to go!

Johnny Showtime: THE AUTOMAT

 by JB

This documentary is both charming and sad.

Johnny Showtime: MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL

 by JB

The good folks at Fathom Events continue to do The Lord’s Work this week by dutifully re-releasing one of the funniest films ever made to theaters.

Johnny Showtimes: CHEECH & CHONG'S LAST MOVIE

 by JB

Yeah, me and these two lovable stoners go waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back.

Johnny Showtime: ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO

 by JB

I found this new documentary to be equal parts cathartic and electrifying.

Johnny Showtime: THE AMATEUR

 by JB

The trailer for this new revenge thriller does the film itself a disservice.

Johnny Showtime: THE CHOSEN: THE LAST SUPPER, PART ONE

 by JB

Apparently, I was unaware of the global phenomenon.