Grindhouse wasn't a movie genre afflicted by subtlety. The plots celebrated mayhem: chain-saw-wielding maniacs, murderous supernatural forces or a young woman on a revenge killing spree. There was ...

In this meandering, bargain-basement spoof of ’70s grindhouse cinema (2009), a booze-sodden secret agent is ordered to track down two stolen briefcases containing highly embarrassing personal material ...

In 1978, my mother met a Nazi. Not a Nazi in the “someone who disagrees with me” sense, or even in the buzzed-cut gang sense. She came face to face with an alumnus of the Third Reich. My mother, a ...