EDITOR’S NOTE: Black Ice was on USA Up All Night on July 21, 1995.

It’s still early fall as I write this, and the last thing I want to think about is snow or icy roads, and here I am, watching a movie shot in Winnipeg, where huge snow piles are all over the place.

Called A Passion for Murder in the UK, this stars Russian actress Joanna Pacula as Vanessa, a government agent who is sleeping with a married politician named Eric Weaver (Arne Olsen). After they have a fight, he’s killed when she shoves him out a window, and she has to go on the run, as she’s left out in the cold by her black ops boss. The only person who can help her is Ben Shorr (Michael Nouri), a cab driver.

Directed by Neill Fearnley, whose career was primarily in TV, and written by Olsen and John Alan Schwartz — the Conan le Cilaire who wrote as well as the Alan Black who wrote Faces of Death — the main reason I watched this was Michael Ironside, who plays Quinn, Vanessa’s boss who tells her that she’s a loose end that needs to be killed.

Ben, an author who can’t get a break, has to drive her from Detroit to Seattle, all on back roads. Those roads are all in Canada, and man, they’re cold. And kind of boring. There is a sex scene in a rest stop, where Nouri bends Pacula over a sink and someone accidentally walks in.

The real star here is Michael Nouri’s fake long hair. It looks like they threw yarn at him and just gave  p. You can’t stop looking at it.

I just wanted Ironside to kill everyone.

You can watch this on Tubi.