Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
“Crazier than a mule humping goat.” It’s fitting that Sam Peckinpah’s final western, Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (1973), should be a eulogy for the genre. The entire film… Read more »
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) evokes our collective idealized childhood memories of autumn. The changing leaves, the cold wind, the pumpkin patch, the early onset of night, and a… Read more »
Quick Change
“The bank robbery was easy, getting out of New York was a nightmare”, so says the tag line for Bill Murray and Howard Franklin’s Quick Change (1990). Franklin and Murray’s… Read more »
Black Rainbow
I think the fact that Mike Hodges is British is essential to Black Rainbow (1989). When one looks at a foreign culture one sees little about it that is common… Read more »
