Ed Lauter

Bullet Points: Raw Deal

If there is one movie that seemingly gets lost in the Schwarzenegger Shuffle it is 1986’s Raw Deal. Considering Raw Deal was released between two of Arnold’s most beloved films, 1985’s Commando and 1987’s Predator, it...

Bullet Points: The Sweeper

When C. Thomas Howell first stepped foot on the set of To Protect and Serve, I wonder if he knew then that he was on the ground floor of his professional relationship with PM Entertainment. Howell...

Bullet Points: 3:15

I always find the high school sub-genre of action movies to be a weird phenomenon. If people hated high school, do they want to watch a movie taking place in high school? If people loved high...

True Action: Death Hunt

Any Charles Bronson fan worth his salt is at least familiar with Bronson’s 1981 film Death Hunt. In Death Hunt, Bronson plays a trapper in the Yukon by the name of Albert Johnson. Johnson ends up...

Unsung Heroes: Death Wish 3

Death Wish 3 is a movie I have watched countless times. Every time I watch Death Wish 3 I can’t help but marvel at the vigilante heroics of Paul Kersey and Richard Shriker as they fight...

Bullet Points: Mercenary

In my time as a movie reviewer I have learned that there are two ways to make an Olivier Gruner film watchable. 1) Limit the amount of dialogue that Gruner’s character has and 2) Surround Gruner...

Bullet Points: Digital Man

For those of you who have never heard of the 1995 movie Digital Man you may be thinking it is an obscure superhero movie like Black Scorpion or Pumaman. While that would be a good guess, it would also be wrong....

Bullet Points: Strike Force

If the name of your movie is the same as one of my all-time favorite wrestling tag teams, chances are strong I will at some point watch your movie. And that was most definitely the case with Strike...