Tag: 1992

When you think of mismatched cops, you do not think of Anthony Edwards and Lance Henriksen. That could be because you’ve never seen Delta Heat, a film that was intended to be a TV show and ended up becoming a theatrical film. Or at least a direct to video feature. Edwards plays Mike Bishop, a cop […]

Also known as Gli occhi dentro (The Eyes Inside) and Occhi senza volto (Eyes Without a Face), this Bruno Mattei* giallo — made a few decades late, but hey, give the man a break — tells the story of Giovanna Dei (Monica Carpanese, who is also in Mattei’s Dangerous Attraction and Legittima Vendetta). She’s the creator of a comic book called Doctor […]

Any time anyone told me how good an action movie was, I always thought, “Yeah, but Hard Boiled…” This is the big action movie that all big action movies want to be. John Woo had been criticized for glamorizing gangsters in his films, so for this film, he created a supercop named Inspector Tequila, who was […]

I saw Freejack in the theater nearly thirty years ago and have to tell you, the future that it promised has not arrived. Does it have the title of a Philip K. Dick book but not really have much to do with it? No, it’s based on his contemporary Robert Sheckley’s* book Immortality, Inc. Is there a […]

You know, when Stephen King takes his name off your movie, you probably should think of what that means. Adapted from an original screenplay called CyberGod and King’s 1975 short story, The Lawnmower Man presents a virtual reality world that you could animate on your smartphone today. Virtual Space Industries Doctor Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) is […]

Phil Alden Robinson is the very definition of having one or two blemishes on an otherwise spotless record as a writer/director. Just look at that resume — Field of Dreams, The Sum of All Fears, Bill Lustig’s Relentless — and realize that he also wrote Rhinestone and Ghost Dad. Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes were the co-screenwriters, coming […]