When the subject of Steven Seagal trivia comes up -- and one could argue that all Seagal-related matters qualify as "trivia" -- even a beginner knows the basics. His first film was Above the Law; he was married to Kelly LeBrock for a while; as the result of a gypsy curse his ponytail is the source of his power and he will die if it is ever cut off; etc. All of this is common knowledge. But do you know what film Seagal starred in that he also directed? I will tell you: On Deadly Ground.

Even if…

I know that in previous columns I have demonstrated a tendency to obsess over a film's title almost as much as its content, and while I strive to overcome that impulse I can't let it go in the case of Dracula 2000. It got that title because it was set in present-day New Orleans rather than Victorian…

Volcano is a very famous movie because it happened to come out two months after Dante's Peak, which was also about a volcano but which, lucky for the makers of Volcano, hadn't used the word "volcano" in its title. A similar phenomenon happened the next year, when Deep Impact and Armageddon were…

Let's say you write a weekly column about bad movies, and that this column is extraordinarily popular and has made you beloved the world over. (LET'S JUST SAY.) Then let's say someone suggests as fodder for this column something called Surf Ninjas, which of course you have not seen, because why…

Our film this week is from 1986, and it is called King Kong Lives. "What??" you're saying. "No he doesn't!" King Kong fell off the Empire State Building in 1933, or off one of the Twin Towers in 1976, or off the Empire State Building again in 2005. In any case, he is dead. He does not live. This…

If there is one thing we learned from Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, it's that you can heal a broken leg by rubbing your hands together and then touching it. Countless lives have been saved with this knowledge. And if there's another thing we learned from Mr. Miyagi, it's to never, ever give up, no…