After hitting it big in Airplane!, actor Robert Hays next appeared in Take This Job And Shove It, a comedy while not being raucous, entertains all the same by being extremely amiable.

The Disney movie Miracle Of The White Stallions is oddly more geared for adult audiences rather than children, but will equally bore both age groups.

Unsurprisingly after all this time, we’ve got some catching up to do.  First, what’s actually new:

Annihilation (2018), in which something out of space renders Florida even more screwed up…

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), in which the preferred way to rip off Star Wars is once again to rip off The Seven Samurai even more…

The Beguiled (1970), in which Clint Eastwood has a complicated convalescence…

The Dragon Lives Again (1977), in which the afterlife needs heroes, too…

Five Element Ninjas (1981), in which only a ninja can destroy a ninja, even in China…

The Shape of Water (2017), or La Cuve de Noces…

Truth or Dare? A Critical Madness (1986), in which you never realize how much time people in cheap movies spend driving around until some sick bastard gives that activity its own theme song…

and…

What We Do in the Shadows (2014), in which the only thing more aggravating than having three roommates is having three roommates who live forever.

And now here’s a bunch of other stuff that I was unable to announce here due to technical difficulties:

The Blood Waters of Dr. Z (1971), in which the first step on the road to World Domination is obviously to turn yourself into a catfish…

Centurion (2010), or The Hills Wear Woad…

The Crazies (1973), in which the Proper Authorities enforce Murphy’s Law with an iron fist…

Deranged (1974), in which you just know all the neighbors will tell the folks from the TV news that he always seemed like such a nice, quiet fellow who kept to himself a lot…

Eaten Alive (1976), in which the neighbors are going to get bleeped when the TV news airs their remarks about the culprit…

Future Hunters (1986), in which Sirio Santiago rips off the whole 1980’s in one fell swoop…

The Horror of Party Beach (1964), in which Del Tenney runs with a ball that AIP uncharacteristically dropped…

It (2017), in which a pretty crappy horror movie keeps getting in the way of a pretty great coming-of-age drama…

Lisztomania (1975), after which you’ll never hear anything by Richard Wagner quite the same way again…

She Demons (1958), in which Richard Cunha rips off damn near the whole 1950’s in one fell swoop…

Swamp Thing (1982), in case you forgot how crummy comic book movies used to be…

Wolfguy: Enraged Lycanthrope (1975), in which the wolf-man never turns into a wolf, but somehow that’s kind of okay…

and…

Wonder Women (1973), which I promise you is none of the movies you’re imagining as you read that title.

Barely released to theaters, The Assignment didn’t deserve its shabby treatment, being an effective action thriller that should be much better known.