Envision The Sting (1973) without the zing, and you get an idea of what to expect from Little Miss Marker , a crime-...

          Note: While I'm on vacation, please enjoy a double-dose of 1980 movies with two weeks of brand-new posts about the y...

          In an odd coincidence, two films of Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House arrived in 1973, one in theaters a...

           Detailed, lengthy, and somewhat meticulous, this made-for-TV dramatization of heiress Patricia Hearst’s k...

          Basically a biker flick featuring drag-racing cars instead of motorcycles, this moderately entertaining exploitation ...

          The first of numerous manly-man adventure flicks directed by Robert Clouse, Darker Than Amber is a grim piece of bus...

A special treat, perhaps, for those eager to see what a low-budget horror anthology produced in Oklahoma might look ...

          Some films are best appreciated as the vessels that deliver extraordinary performances, and Ingmar Bergman...

          Released a few months after Jerry Schatzberg’s harrowing The Panic in Needle Park , this slickly produced ...

          More unpleasant than unsettling, Straight on Till Morning is an atypical offering from UK’s Hammer Films,...

          A thoughtful coming-of-age story somewhat in the vein of Harper Lee’s 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird , Birch Interv...

          One of the cinematic rabbit holes I find most alluring is the one containing lost feature-length TV pilots...

It almost goes without saying that most biker movies are terrible, since nearly all of them were low-budget exploitation flicks...

          An offbeat mystery set in one of New York’s seedier neighborhoods, Who Killed Mary Whats’ername depicts t...

This lethargic supernatural picture seems as if it wants to be a thriller or even an outright horror picture, though it badly m...

Trash-cinema auteur John Waters took a step backward with this picture, perhaps because he knew he couldn’t get any m...

          A clue about the right way to watch the made-for-TV detective flick Goodnight, My Love is contained in the title, ...

          Considering that he’s spent most of his career as a screenwriter of violent action movies— Commando (1985...

Further proof that Al Adamson’s movies are akin to the slime that pools on the floors of movie theaters as beverages and butter...