The Green Hornet

Hollywood needs a hit Actually, Hollywood needs a bunch of hits. Actually, Hollywood needs a bunch of big, fat, through-the-roof hits. And with the summer – and the year – half over, the time to come up with them is running out. The movie business finished 2010 with the second highest domestic box office on record:  $10.2 …

Since the earliest days of American cinema there has been a shadowy counterpart to the commercial mainstream:  exploitation movies — pictures whose appeal lies in their sensational treatment and leering promotion of often lurid and prurient material.  Pre-1960, when mainstream Hollywood worked within severe restrictions on content, exploitation movies offered audiences titillating glimpses of the …