All the elements were in place for  The Little Ark  to become at least a passable bit of children’s entertainment (and in fact online commen...

          Of minor interest to Oscar completists because it scored an out-of-nowhere nomination for its original song “A Life That Never Was...

Although its storytelling is more coherent than the usual under-budgeted sludge made overseas by Americans of questionable ability,   Chines...

           Proving that ’70s Canadian producers were just as capable as anyone else of jamming multinational casts into mindless schlock,   ...

           Long on humanistic sociocultural messaging and short on cinematic polish,   Happy as the Grass Was Green —subsequently retitled  ...

          Hey there, groovy people! Even though daily posting on this blog has been in the rear-view mirror for some time, it ’ s wonderful ...

           Toward the end of his erratic three-decade film/TV career, Russian-born helmer Victor Stoloff got heavy into stories about group ...

          Again demonstrating their propensity for transforming facts into ridiculous fiction, the folks at Sunn Classic Pictures used the r...

Imagine if Rudy Ray Moore possessed the charisma of a DMV clerk and didn’t tell jokes—then you’ve got an idea of what to expect from   Solom...

           Enjoyably vapid French/Italian heist thriller   The Burglars   features a typically random assortment of international actors, th...

           An attempt at translating a classic fairy tale into a (somewhat) modern horror picture, the US/UK coproduction   Whoever Slew Aun...

           According to actor Robert Stack, one of the perks Universal employed while persuading him to star in the series   The Name of the...

          How silly is  Le Magnifique , a comedic French/Italian riff on the secret-agent genre? A description of the opening scene should a...

Here’s the yawn-inducing plot of no-budget/no-name horror dud Have a Nice Weekend —several people visiting a remote island in the Northeast ...

           More admirable for what it attempts than for what it achieves,   Teenager   is not even remotely the movie suggested by its poste...

Only someone determined to consume every teen-sex comedy from the ’70s can muster a reason to endure   Cheering Section , which is as unfunn...

           Passable only because it avoids some of the uglier excesses common to low-budget ’70s horror,  The Bride  boasts a clumsily effec...

           Tolerable only because of midlevel star power and solid production values, this inert UK thriller squanders a workable premise th...

           By the late ’70s, actor Michael Christian had spent a decade struggling to capitalize on the minor notoriety he gained from a rec...

           Demonstrating that the contributions of a single artisan can improve even the shabbiest material, this Native American-themed out...

           Years before he made the strange vampire saga   Ganja & Hess   (1973), multihyphenate Bill Gunn wrote and directed this arty ...