Tagged: Detroit

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2010s / Drama / Thriller

Detroit (2017)

Director Kathryn Bigelow, collaborating with favorite screenwriter Mark Boal (who penned her The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, takes on the challenge of crafting a drama based on the true events of one particular tragedy that occurred...

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2010s / Horror

It Follows (2014)

Writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s (The Myth of the American Sleepover) sophomore feature effort is an homage of sorts to horror films of the late 1970s and early 1980s, especially Halloween, The Shining and its ilk.  No,...

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2010s / Drama / Horror

Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Indie film giant Jim Jarmusch writes and directs another genre musing with Only Lovers Left Alive, which offers a different take on the vampire movie, a subgenre that one would think would have few new...

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1980s / Action / Thriller

Action Jackson (1988)

Carl Weathers stars as Harvard-educated Detroit cop Jericho “Action” Jackson, who earned his reputation for crossing the line in roughhousing perps.  The police captain (Bill Duke) demotes Jackson from lieutenant to desk-jockey sergeant no...

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1980s / Action / Comedy / Thriller

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

In the mid-1970s, Don Simpson relocated to Beverly Hills for a job developing films for Paramount Pictures. A mechanic’s son from Anchorage, Alaska, Simpson felt out of place residing among the wealthy elite. After...

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2000s / Action / Thriller

Exit Wounds (2001)

Seagal’s first starring vehicle in three years leaves me with mixed feelings.  Not surprisingly, Exit Wounds continues Stevie’s string of bad and predictable films.  What is surprising is how this particular film at least maintains watchability...

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2000s / Action / Thriller

Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)

Assault on Precinct 13 is a remake of the cult classic John Carpenter film of the same name of 1976, offering several key twists to the story, and ratcheting up the graphic violence and language for today’s...

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2000s / Drama / Musical

8 Mile (2002)

Not knowing very much about 8 Mile before going in other than it starred rapper Eminem, to say I was skeptical would be an understatement.  Although a long-time fan of hip hop, Eminem’s style hasn’t appealed...

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1990s / Comedy / Thriller

Out of Sight (1998)

A notorious bank robber (Clooney) busts out of prison with the help of a former inmate (Rhames) but kidnaps a female US Marshal (Lopez) on the escape route. The Marshal escapes and the two felons make their...