This series can’t decide what it wants to be. Just like our protagonist has gone from teenage prostitute to law student to photojournalist, so too has the series shifted gears from weirdly sweet serial killer thriller to screwball action comedy to neo noir sleaze fest over the course of three features.
Part 3 sees Angel, who has managed to age eleven years between 1984 and 1988, tracking down her long lost mother and playing gumshoe in the case of her…
Boy, those baby boomer filmmakers sure did love reworking classic Western scenarios to fit them into other genres, didn’t they?
In Outland, Peter Hyams presents his own sci-fi take on the classic tale of the honest lawman who rides into a frontier town and cleans up the corrupting influences, leaving civilization in his wake. It’s a mining town in the middle of a boom, with all the saloons and brothels you’d expect in a Deadwood or a Tombstone. The only…
Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive certainly starts out like the gonzo trashterpiece you’d expect from a coked-up monomaniacal best selling author who decided to crank out a half-assed screenplay and make his own movie just because he knew somebody would let him. But the first act proves to be a promise that the rest of the film can’t keep.
A comet passes by the earth, causing the sky to glow green and large trucks and other random machinery to come to…
