North Carolina maverick Earl Owensby delivered his first offering to the Southern drive-in circuit with   Challenge , a shameless...

I’m overdue in hyping a recent appearance on  Glass Houses: A Billy Joel Podcast , the creators of which were gracious enough to feature me ...

Hey there, groovy people! The reason I ’ ve been remiss in posting new reviews lately is that I ’ ve been busy with a number of outside proj...

           Adapted from a Newbury Award-winning 1967 children’s novel by Scott O’Dell, American-Spanish coproduction  The Black Pearl  offer...

            An intriguing artifact from the same Black-power zeitgeist that produced Uptight   (1968),  Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song  (...

          Welcome to what I believe is the first-ever book review on  Every ’70s Movie , occasioned by the discovery of a volume dedicated t...

          Beginning in the mid-1960s, Rankin-Bass Productions generated so many animated holiday specials—including the beloved stop-motion ...

           America’s 37th president was an easy target for satire, hence a slew of comedy films released in the run-up to the 1972 election—...

          If one scene encapsulates the pervy strangeness of  Up Your Teddy Bear , it may be the dream sequence during which an adult man we...

Fairplay  is an adequately produced but otherwise inept frontier comedy featuring a number of vaguely familiar actors with marginal credits ...

          The counterculture era yielded numerous Biblical allegories and nuclear-apocalypse meditations, so   The Noah —which combines thes...

           Another important figure from ’70s cinema has left the stage because the great Robert Duvall died on Feb. 15 at the age of 95. De...

          Once again, thanks to North Carolina-based critic and podcaster Adam Long, who graciously hosted me for another conversation about...

          Walk the Walk  is unusual—it seems improbable there is another grungy movie about a middle-aged Black seminarian forming an intens...

           A microbudget antiwar picture that received a limited release,  The P.O.W.  is presented as a nonfiction portrait of Howie Kaufma...

           Some of the most bizarre viewing experiences I’ve had for this blog involve sanitized versions of exploitation movies—every so of...

As in life, birthdays start to blur after a while, but because so much of what exists in the digital space is ephemeral, it seems significan...

Yet another instance of pornographers sneaking into the mainstream via softcore,  Checkmate —also known as  Pepper  and  Pepper: Agent OOX —...

         Some documentaries are such useful historical artifacts that quibbling about their artistic or technical shortcomings misses the po...

          Even though he’s inextricably linked to the 1970s—the period during which he was, almost inarguably, Hollywood’s biggest star—Robe...