Word: serialization
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...many as 600 slayings between 1975 and 1983. On the basis of Lucas' confessions, police closed some 210 previously unsolved homicide cases in 26 states. But the Dallas Times Herald last week published a copyrighted story by Reporters Hugh Aynesworth and Jim Henderson contending that Lucas' claims of serial murders were a perverse hoax. Lucas told Aynesworth in 1983 that he had killed only three people and was claiming more murders in an effort to ridicule the police. Lucas knew that his ongoing confessions would delay a transfer to the Texas death row at Huntsville...
Some movie genres will just not lie still under Lawrence Kasdan's knife. As screenwriter (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and writer-director (Body Heat), he has performed deft surgery on the Saturday-matinee serial and the film noir melodrama. But the western will not yield. Silverado sprays the buckshot of its four or five story lines across the screen with the abandon of a drunken galoot aiming at a barn door. Though the film interrupts its chases and shootouts to let some fine actors stare meaningfully or spit out a little sagebrush wisdom, it rarely allows them to build...
...which his slimy partner, played by Michael Madsen, calls a “bum ticker” in true noir-cheese style. Hartigan has given up his whole life to save a young girl (the adult version of whom is played stiffly by the beautiful Jessica Alba) from the serial-killing son of a powerful senator...
...which his slimy partner, played by Michael Madsen, calls a “bum ticker” in true noir-cheese style. Hartigan has given up his whole life to save a young girl (the adult version of whom is played stiffly by the beautiful Jessica Alba) from the serial-killing son of a powerful senator...
...Mike Hammer and Al Feldstein's EC SuspenStories comics--Miller tells tales of misfit heroes seeking redemption by rescuing damsels in distress. Hartigan (Bruce Willis, untoppable at slipping into the skin of doomed tough guys) is a cop on a mission to save sweet Nancy (Jessica Alba) from a serial killer. Marv (Mickey Rourke, whose fallen-angel smile peeks through pounds of makeup) is an ex-con avenging the death of the one beautiful woman who ever did him a favor. Dwight (sturdy, haunted Clive Owen), on the lam from the law, protects the city's only honorable citizens...