Washington and Wahlberg play a pair of freelance criminals in this action-packed thriller where these bad guys are the good guys compared to everyone else around them.
Tag: Bill Paxton
Walter Hill’s ‘Streets of Fire’ on Netflix
A self-described “A Rock and Roll Fable” from “another time, another place,” I think of Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire (1984) as a rock and roll western dropped into the urban badlands of a brick and neon noir. It opens on what appears to be the 1950s frozen in time, a working class neighborhood forgotten […]
‘Frailty’ – Bill Paxton’s directorial debut on Netflix
Bill Paxton left a great legacy of screen characters behind when he passed away earlier this year. What isn’t as well known is that Paxton also directed films. Frailty (2001) is his directorial debut and it is marvelously off-balance and under-the-skin creepy from the first few minutes. It’s a southern gothic take on the serial […]