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…
Screened in memory of Ennio Morricone. I dare say this isn’t one of the titles that springs immediately to mind when listing the late maestro’s greatest scores, but it does highlight that he was capable of great versatility. Here he creates a John Carpenter score for a John Carpenter movie. It is “music that disappears” as the director likes to put it; it becomes a part of the environment. I doubt it would play well on its own away from…
