Moreover, Barbieri acted in several low-budget straight-to-video movies in the early to mid 1990s.

A straight-to-video movie isn't necessarily cheap to make.

And, let's face it, most straight-to-video movies are just plain bad.

As for his sudden recruitment by the Syndicate, it has all the plausibility of a contrived plot point in a cheesy straight-to-video movie.

After a seven-year absence she made a comeback with a number of straight-to-video movies, usually light comedies.

In most cases, though, pity the straight-to-video movie that doesn't fall cleanly into a genre.

He works fast, producing his latest straight-to-video movie, Da Last Don , in 10 days, and he records albums in even less time.

Worse, her main characters spout the sort of dialogue popular in straight-to-video movies.

While at the video store, Kramer rents The Other Side of Darkness, a (fictional) straight-to-video movie that deals with a woman in a coma.

Most straight-to-video movies are clearly just that, but now and then one comes along that starts arguments.