The Rambler

Calvin Lee Reeder's The Rambler (US, 2013) - Practically parodying a slumming B-lister's phone-it-in, cash-the-check indie perf, Dermot Mulroney is good for a giggle -- just one -- in "The Rambler," writer-director Calvin Lee Reeder's randomly splattering take on the back-country-road movie. Sporting highway cop shades and a 10-gallon hat, Mulroney's guitar-slinging, chain-smoking good ol' boy beholds a steady stream of white-trash miscreants en route, circuitously, to his brother's Oregon farm. Shot none too crisply in New Mexico, this increasingly frenzied and blood-soaked B-movie time-waster is best consumed late in the evening at home, and thus best suited to Anchor Bay's VOD arm. 2013SUN. RATING: 3