Spring is here, which for me means cold beers and hot pizzas and bad movies. I have a new themed cycle of reviews in the works, devoted entirely to the third films of a series. Most of these are relatively obscure and belong to franchises that, using conventional wisdom, probably shouldn't have had a second installment, much less a third. Sometimes they aren't even the third installment, they just claim to be. And we are the richer for them. I'm not opposed to recommendations, either, so fire away!

From the poster art of Cannon's NINJA III: THE DOMINATION.