For every family film made by Walt Disney Productions that hit the bull’s-eye in terms of marrying subject and theme...

          Judged by the low standards of the cinematic cycle to which it belongs, Black Mama, White Mama is fairly palatable,...

Delivering exactly what the title promises, the made-for-TV thriller Ants is basically acceptable given the expectatio...

          During the late ’60s and early ’70s, several counterculture-themed stage shows attracted attention by featuri...

          Difficult as it may be to imagine today, when seemingly every major movie includes sci-fi elements, there was a time...

          Among the myriad reasons why singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson casts such a long shadow, despite producing only...

          After making his directorial debut with the gruesome revenge picture The Last House on the Left (1972), film...

A comedy that’s almost completely bereft of laughs, Lady Liberty stars the venerable Sophia Loren as an Italian factor...

          Although precious few fiction films were made about the Vietnam War while it was still raging, the late ’70s produce...

          Interesting only because of its cast, this brisk TV movie about racial tensions in a Los Angeles firefighting compan...

          Long before he made humanistic dramas and thrillers for major studios, Jonathan Demme paid his dues by generating ex...

          The image of a child committing murder is evergreen in horror cinema, and with good reason—few visual juxtapositions...

          Exquisitely simple and memorably sad, this culture-clash melodrama was an international breakthrough for prol...

          This UK oddity was original titled Secrets of Sex , and then given the more genteel moniker Bizarre (alterna...

          Interesting mostly for its mixture of animation and live action, this lightweight adaptation of Jonathan Swif...

          Every so often, a movie defeats me. In some cases, I’m unable to parse the mysteries of a film because the project i...