A dreary attempt at romantic farce that employs such hackneyed conceits as cartoonishly exaggerated class differences, wholly unconvincing f...

          Painfully generic blaxploitation melodrama  Hangup  provides a minor footnote within film history because it was the last picture ...

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          A youth-culture riff on   Dr. Strangelove   (1964),   Wild in the Sky   has elements that might have cohered under stronger artist...

           One can’t question the consistency of Earl Owensby’s earliest cinematic efforts. After scoring hits on the drive-in circuit by pl...

           Minor blaxploitation melodrama  Brother on the Run  doesn’t come anywhere close to fulfilling the promise of its fantastic title,...

          While the 1971 telefilm  Duel  was the first standalone feature-length project that Steven Spielberg made as a professional, he di...

Any hopes that  Linda Lovelace for President  might realize the satirical possibilities of its title disappear the instant the movie starts,...

Taking advantage of the unexpected downtime we’ve all had in the last couple of years, I recently completed a musical adventure by revisitin...

          A year after they scored a box-office hit with  The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams , star Dan Haggerty and the same behind-the-sc...

          The quintessential figure of a woman who has everything and yet has nothing, Betty (Ellen Geer) is a housewife with a successful h...

Is  Delirium  a conspiracy thriller disguished as a slasher flick? Or is it a provocative story about PTSD and vigilante justice rendered in...

           It’s time to leave the real world behind and venture into the alternate universe created by a gentleman named Craig Denney, whose...

          Set in rural Quebec during the 1940s,  Mon oncle Antoine  is mostly the intimate character study of a teenager experiencing format...

            Offering a thoughtful spin on the TV-detective genre,  Smile, Jenny, You’re Dead  is a reboot of sorts, serving as the second pi...

The notion of playing a resort town’s top lawman must have lodged in Andy Griffith’s imagination after starring in the respectable made-for-...

          This sultry European melodrama/thriller exists somewhere between classic film noir and the psychosexual explorations of Nicolas Ro...

What it is, people of the Interwebs! Touching base with a quick update on the blog ’s continued growth, because the number of lifetime views...

           If not for its posh production values and the pedigree of its director, the cutesy romance  Slow Dancing in the Big City  would c...

           The bankable surname of of this obscure melodrama’s leading actor explains why he got above-the-title billing in his first movie,...

           As is true of most films with which Orson Welles was associated, this European adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 advent...

          Mostly of interest for Leonard Nimoy fans curious to see how the beloved actor handles one of his rare leading-man roles,  Assault...