(NOTE: a version of this review first appeared on Cinemageddon back in 2012 when I first watched the film.)

Loni Anderson plays movie star Thelma Todd in this lukewarm made-for-TV mystery based upon real events. The ing cast includes John O'Hurley as Pat DiCicco, Scott Paulin as a fictionalized detective who cracks the case, and Robert Davi as Lucky Luciano. Disappointingly, the film treats the material as if the mystery were solved and ignores important details, characters and theories surrounding…

Tonight my bad movie group watched The Buttercream Gang (1992), whereby teenage white boys in a small midwestern town in the 90s pretend they're in a Civil War era gang called The Buttercream Gang that does good deeds for their very white community. Things like breaking into the widow Jenkins' mansion because she tipped over again. They soon find their Christian values shaken when one of their own is corrupted after spending a year in an actual gang in Chicago.…

This breezy and affable sun-soaked character piece tells the story of one thirty something lifeguard's Summer of '75, and the women who shaped it.

Sam Elliott plays Rick, a full grown man with a carefree adolescent existence. As a beach lifeguard for Los Angeles County, he's happy and good at his job but he's beginning to feel the pressure to grow up. He's still a hit with the ladies but he clearly has more in common with his young lifeguard…