Rural America has been politicized and pigeonholed for decades, exploited by deceitful candidates of all partisan persuasions, stereotyped by a pervasive popular culture, and frequently represented in the most superficial fashion by an often-patronizing mass media. If not literally realized, ...

To the extent that they are necessarily divergent, the worlds of film fandom and film history overlap to equally avid ends with Christophe Espenan’s 2018 documentary, The Coolest Guy Movie Ever, a 58-minute look back at the 1963 John Sturges ...

Under the banner of Solar Productions, Bullitt was the first film Steve McQueen made with producing partner Robert E. Relyea. As their prospective director, McQueen had his sights set on Peter Yates, having recently seen the Englishman’s 1967 UK feature ...

The Delta Force is everything that was great and maddening about Golan-Globus Productions and because of that it’s perhaps The Cannon Group’s defining feature. This 1986 Chuck Norris-led property takes a ripped-from-the-headlines impetus and engorges the facts with a vigorous ...

But wait, it has regularly been advised, this one is actually good. It’s true, Runaway Train (1985) is the Cannon Group production most often cited as a genuinely excellent movie, not a cult hit, not a niche genre oddity, not an ...

There’s nothing the least bit ambiguous about Trigger, Jr., a 1950 Western starring the legendary cowboy crooner Roy Rogers. Released by Republic Pictures, this musical matinee is a swift, 68-minute jaunt through the lighter side of the wild west, where ...

Reuniting the central creative team behind one of The Cannon Group’s best and most successful films, 1984’s Missing in Action, Invasion U.S.A., released the following year, is one of the more brazenly sensational and thoroughly entertaining features to emerge from ...

Its premise alone is generally enough to evoke laughter and/or derision: A truck driver seeks the funds necessary to secure custody of his young son, and ultimately does so through the winnings earned by arm wrestling. For the chosen few, ...

There are enough intriguing twists throughout Nightkill, that on the basis of these revelations alone, the film rests as a solidly entertaining thriller. But what distinguishes this underseen 1980 feature as something uncommonly and increasingly interesting, is its effortless integration ...

Mario Bava hadn’t been a big Western fan to begin with. He may have had two under his belt by the time he got to Roy Colt and Winchester Jack, his 1970 oddball horse opera, but it clearly wasn’t a ...