Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
The biggest novelty of Curse of the Pink Panther (which was the original title of 1978’s Revenge of the Pink Panther before they changed it) is that it attempts to introduce us to a replacement...
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Style Wars (1983)
Style Wars is a documentary look at the street art among the youth of New York in the early 1980s, especially in the South Bronx, particularly in graffiti art and break-dancing. The film takes...
New Jack City (1991)
Wesley Snipes is cast as Nino Brown, who catapults himself from two-bit crook to drug syndicate kingpin in the late 1980s by riding the wave of crack cocaine that took the inner cities by...
Die Hard (1988)
In 1968, Roderick Thorp’s 1966 novel, “The Detective”, was adapted to the screen by 20th Century Fox. The film version starred Frank Sinatra as middle-aged ex-cop Joe Leland and performed well enough at the...
Across 110th Street (1972)
One of the grittiest and most violent films of its era, Across 110th Street, is a reliable police action vehicle made especially compelling with its claustrophobic location work, giving us a feel of the bleakness and...
The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Someone is stalking the streets of New York with a small pickaxe and clonking people on the head, leaving dead bodies all around. Never fear because NYPD detective Ed Delaney (Sinatra, The Manchurian Candidate) is...
Cop Land (1997)
Crime and corruption invade the small New Jersey town of Garrison in the form of NYPD officers who have moved there to find a safe haven from the anxieties in the city. Stallone plays...