Few blaxploitation pictures have cast a longer shadow over African-American pop culture than The Mack , a violent thriller about ...

          Rotund comedian Dom DeLuise could be hilarious in the right situations, whether he was cutting up with buddy Burt Reynolds on The...

          After more than a decade of playing routine roles in undistinguished features and TV shows, squint-eyed tough guy Lee Van Cleef f...

          Watching the meat-and-potatoes terrorism thriller The Human Factor , one can’t help but wonder which actor the producers ori...

          First, the good news. In the last of her ’70s blaxploitation star vehicles, leading lady Pam Grier looks fantastic, and she displ...

          Even though he enjoyed a long and lucrative career directing light comedies, it’s a shame Blake Edwards made only one proper West...

          Appropriate to its title, Fragment of Fear offers glimpses of the powerhouse psychological thriller it never quite becomes—fragm...

          After suffering one of the most precipitous falls from grace of any ’70s auteur, Peter Bogdanovich returned to his roots by makin...

          Adapted from a novel by thriller specialist Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File has all the usual elements of an internation...

          One of those lowbrow hits whose immense popularity defies all reasonable explanation, the Clint Eastwood action-comedy Every Whic...

Gene-splicing the blaxploitation and kung-fu genres was a smart move in terms of marketing, but Black Belt Jones is far less than the sum ...

          Actor Cliff Robertson dove headfirst into this vanity piece about a middle-aged rodeo cowboy trying to restart his career after a...

          With its focus on low-level drug peddlers and “tune in, turn on, drop out” college culture, the lengthily titled Dealing: Or the ...

          For those who enjoy charting the outer reaches of bad cinema, the title of The Klansman looms larger than that of most ’70s movi...

A methodical revenge thriller predicated on the tensions between Great Britain and Ireland during the worst of the Irish “troubles,” Hennes...

          In culinary parlance appropriate to the subject, Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? is a tasty trifle. The witty com...

          A solid Western built around the familiar theme of a young man proving himself through the rigors of a dangerous adventure, The C...

Director Curtis Harrington earned a decent reputation as a horror maven prior to transitioning into an unspectacular career helming episodi...

          Although the ’70s produced a seemingly endless stream of dramas about mixed-up kids roaming the country and getting into trouble,...

          At first glance, the idea of a blaxploitation remake of Get Carter (1971) sounds great, since the grim Michael Caine picture has...

          Part action picture, part conspiracy thriller, and part revenge epic, The Killer Elite is a mess. As directed by Sam Peckinpah, ...

          A strange re-imagination of Daniel Defoe’s classic adventure novel Robinson Crusoe , told from the perspective of the lead charac...