When Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear countdown thriller “A House of Dynamite” premiered at the Venice Film Festival in early September, it was greeted with a chorus of praise. Just about every critic there ...

I love a good action flick. I really dig B-movie icon Cynthia Rothrock. And I have a major soft spot for the made-for-TV movies of years past. On that basis, I have nothing but love for Kevin Hooks’ ...

I am beyond pleased to speak to the merits of an iconic grindhouse actioner today. John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 is one of the most seamlessly executed exploitation films ever made. The ...

“It’s so funny to me that Andy Milligan has become this great cult figure,” Laura Shaine Cunningham told IndieWire. To Cunningham — an author and playwright who describes her stint in Z-grade movies ...

Decades before “The Hunger Games” and “Talladega Nights” brought Hollywood productions to Charlotte, a handful of locals gave independent movie making a shot with varying degrees of success. “The ...

Sugar Rot (2025) Film Review from the 24th Annual Fantasia Film Festival, a movie directed by Becca Kozak, written by Becca Kozak, and starring Chloe Macleod, Drew Forster, Michela Ross, and Charles ...

On its own terms, “Sound of Freedom” is a well-done exploitation film. Like the “Taken” series, it’s about a white savior who travels into lurid foreign lands to rescue victims from human trafficking ...

Last House on Dead End Street is a gruesome exploitation film with real versus fake murder speculation. Director Roger Watkins originally used a pseudonym, only later to reveal he made the film.

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...