Cop Land
Cop Land (1997) is writer/director James Mangold’s reimagining of the gritty New Hollywood cop film as a pulpy film noir. The plot is pure pulp, the execution all grit and… Read more »
Cop Land (1997) is writer/director James Mangold’s reimagining of the gritty New Hollywood cop film as a pulpy film noir. The plot is pure pulp, the execution all grit and… Read more »
Akihisa Okamoto’s film Lady Battle Cop (1990) is everything one could want or expect from vintage Japanese V-Cinema. Lady Battle Cop is violent, campy, low-budget, and over the top. It… Read more »
If you grew up watching Drop Dead Fred (1991) you got lost in the fantasy hijinks of the singular Rik Mayall totally unaware of the very real ramifications of Phoebe… Read more »
Between the masterpieces Manhunter (1986) and Heat (1995), director Michael Mann made The Last Of The Mohicans (1992). Mann teamed with fellow Miami Vice director Christopher Crowe to pen the… Read more »
Rage & Honor (1992) follows Cynthia Rothrock as Det. Fairchild of the L.A.P.D. as she assists Australian cop Preston Michaels (Richard Norton) in clearing his name of a murder he… Read more »
Before they shocked audiences with Ebola Syndrome (1996), director Herman Yau Lai-To and actor Anthony Wong made Cop Image (1994). Cop Image, unlike the pair’s previous outing Taxi Hunter (1993),… Read more »
Four years after the previous installment, Jackie Chan unleashed Police Story 3: Supercop (1992). Chan, Maggie Cheung and Bill Tung all reprise their roles from the earlier films with Michelle… Read more »
Despite some of the claims in its opening credits, Doctor Mordrid (1992) is very much indebted to the comic book Doctor Strange. In fact, Doctor Mordrid is probably the best… Read more »
Way, way back when I was in film school my favorite professor gave me a bunch of videocassettes of movies that were, at the time, quite hard to come by…. Read more »
Event Horizon (1997) is a true science fiction masterpiece. The film takes an original approach to many staples of the genre and boasts a tremendous cast (Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill,… Read more »