Robert Rodriguez turned a tongue-in-cheek trailer for a fake border revenge movie into a full length feature tribute to 1970s exploitation cinema.
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‘A Boy and His Dog’ on Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel
A Boy and His Dog (1976), the directorial debut of longtime character actor and Sam Peckinpah regular L.Q. Jones, is not the first post-apocalyptic vision of America but it does offer a different approach to the empty streets and ghostly cities that previously stood in for life after the end. Jones, adapting the novella by […]
‘Brawl in Cellblock 99’ – Vince Vaughn picks a fight on Amazon Prime
Brawl in Cellblock 99 (2017) is my pick for the smartest piece of cinematic pulp fiction in 2017. It didn’t draw audiences to theaters, perhaps due to the extremes of the violent action. But if it lacks the elaborate choreography and martial grace of John Wick (by design), it more than makes up for it […]