Guns

Since the late 70s, the husband and wife team of Andy and Arlene Sidaris--she produces, he writes and directs--have been responsible for a series of low-budget action adventure pictures featuring Playboy Playmates and muscular young men in skimpy clothing, accessorized with high-tech cars, planes and guns. The titles--SEVEN, MALIBU EXPRESS, HARD TICKET TO HAWAII, PICASSO TRIGGER and SAVAGE BEACH--are probably more familiar to people who watch a lot of pay-per-view movies in hotel rooms than they are to the average moviegoer.

The Sidarises' films are assembled according to a strict formula that mixes equal parts skin, explosions, chases over land, sea and air, a...