“Got a smoke?” – Napoleon Wilson John Carpenter’s 1976 action-thriller Assault on Precinct 13 is an example of low budget cinema at its finest. Inspired in large part by his love of Howard Hawks’ classic Western RIO BRAVO it is a story about camaraderie and is set in mostly one […]
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Michael Fischa’s ultra sleazy L.A. crime drama CRACK HOUSE (1989) could be seen as a modern update of all the low budget exploitation teen drug films that came out in the 50s and 60s. The story introduces us to high school lovers Rick (Gregg Gomez Thomsen) and Melissa (Cher Butler). […]
David Ayers’ End of Watch (2012) gives viewers an intimate look at life in the modern day police force with Officers Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Mike Zavala (Michael Pena) as they work the streets of South Central LA. What makes this film unique is that Taylor is making a […]
The Eye of Bill “The Butcher” As Bill The Butcher (Daniel Day Lewis) stands in the cold snow, the camera cuts in to an extreme close up of his evil glass eye which features the image of an American eagle. Gangs of New York: Being a longtime fan of Scorsese, […]