Van's Cine Blog

 The bounty hunter ranks as one of many stock characters in both American westerns and European horse operas. Universally reviled in virtually every American western until Sergio Leone's "For A Few Dollars More" (1965), this stock character emer...

 William Shatner plays a dual role as half-breed twin brothers in Spanish helmer José Briz Méndez’s hell-bent-for-leather sagebrusher, “White Comanche,” co-starring Joseph Cotton and Rosanna Yanni. Shatner made this low-budget oater whil...

 William Shatner plays a dual role as half-breed twin brothers in Spanish helmer José Briz Méndez’s hell-bent-for-leather sagebrusher, “White Comanche,” co-starring Joseph Cotton and Rosanna Yanni. Shatner made this low-budget oater whil...

 “Bullet Scars” director David Ross Lederman’s ballistically-paced, B-movie thriller “Strange Alibi” casts Warner Brothers contract actor Arthur Kennedy as rogue detective Joe Geary. Geary staggers the chief of police with a punch in t...

 Any movie veteran director Abel Ferrara of "Bad Lieutenant” fame helms is worth watching at least once, and his competently made-for-TV revenge melodrama, "The Gladiator" proves no exception to this rule. "Wiseguy" star Ken Wahl plays the har...

Danny Lyon's 1968 photojournalistic book about a Chicago biker club inspired "Mud" writer & director Jeff Nichols to make "The Bikeriders," starring Austin Butler, Jody Comer, and Tom Hardy. This nostalgic but lackluster, 116-minute epic chronicl...

 Jessica Alba goes full metal jacket in Indonesian director Mouly Surya’s Hispanic-themed action thriller “Trigger Warning” and shows she is no slouch when it comes to fighting. Our resourceful heroine disarms a chainsaw wielding madman wh...