After opening with a moderately exciting bank robbery and chase, which introduces audiences to the title character of even-tempere...

           Apparently Sammy Davis Jr. spent some time looking for a project in which he could costar with John Wayne, leading to development...

          In the great 1966 Western  The Professionals , mercenaries enter Mexico to rescue an American’s wife, who was supposedly kidnapped...

Thank you to North Carolina-based critic and podcaster Adam Long for inviting me to his corner of the Internet for a conversation about Ever...

Calling   Elmer   a substandard example of the intrepid-dog genre requires giving the movie too much credit. Amateurish and dull, this early...

The first of three schlocky movies directed by minor Hollywood actor Chris Robinson, this swampy adventure has such a problematic central el...

           It’s unsurprising this low-budget dramedy failed to make noise during its original release because even though the core of the pi...

           After the successful release of  A Thief in the Night  (1972), the Rapture-themed drama that launched his evangelical production ...

          Vietnam-era movies about young Americans illegally avoiding military service tended to be angsty dramas, so  A.W.O.L.  is an oddit...

           To the best of my knowledge, innocuous outdoor adventure   Brother of the Wind   was the first production from Sunn Classic Pictu...

I’ve long wondered why so many zero-budget filmmakers botch their attempts at creature features, given that the formula for these pictures i...

Mindless horror/thriller schlock that may or may not have slithered through theaters on its way to an ‘80s video release,  Blood Voyage  tel...

Hey there, groovy people! Last time I posted one of these updates about viewership milestones, I offered my hope that readers had not grown ...

Watching a movie as muddled as   Lapin 360 , one can only marvel that anyone ever thought the piece would hold together. After all, it’s not...

          Not too many T&A-driven grindhouse flicks stem from legit theater, but  Pets  has exactly that pedigree. However, it’s useful ...

          Watching   The Daredevil , it’s tricky to parse whether the people involved with the project thought they were making a real movie...

          Some grungy movies are such prime fodder for cultural analysis that their actual cinematic merits (or lack thereof) are inconseque...

           Featuring a plot so thin it could barely power a sitcom episode, jokes so anemic they mostly elicit indifference, and a musical s...

           Amazingly, ten years after the release of   Easy Rider , indirect knockoffs of that seminal film were still getting made.   A Gre...

          Even though  The Horror at 37,000 Feet  is a terrible made-for-TV supernatural thriller distinguished by a dumb storyline, a motle...

Hey there, groovy people! I hope regular visitors to this blog have not tired of occasional posts celebrating readership milestones, but I’m...

           Delivering in a big way on both elements of its title,   Stunt Rock   is an Australian oddity depicting the adventures of an Auss...

           If it’s possible for a movie to be completely forgettable   and  deeply weird, then   The Loner s   is such a movie. On the surfa...