In North America, you get from A to B mostly by car, and Duel is a bona fide B-movie with a plot that could not be more simple: a menacing trucker tries to run a man off the road, ruining an otherwise leisurely drive through the California hills. And the savvy move by Steven Spielberg was to internalizeContinue reading “Duel”
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The Driller Killer
He puts the torture in “tortured artist” but otherwise THE DRILLER KILLER is a bit of a bore, in both senses of the word. It’s weird, as this hits all the right notes in terms of the kind of thing that interests us here on the site: depictions of gritty urban environs, a sleazy underworld aesthetic, gobs ofContinue reading “The Driller Killer”
