Tense, Exciting, Dangerous-Hollywood Homicide is Not

Ron Shelton’s Hollywood Homicide , from a screenplay by Robert Souza and Mr. Shelton, should have been a sharper action-comedy satire on the LAPD than it eventually turned out to be. Its failure was not the fault of the capable cast that was assembled for the project. The subject is not to blame, either-buddy-buddy cop Read More

The Dark Side of the Force

Movies about corrupt cops are as common as road kill. But you rarely see one as skillfully directed, intensely acted and consistently gripping as Ron Shelton’s Dark Blue . The conflicted cops and twisted underworld killers who have turned the mind of writer James Ellroy into a lurid but fascinating kind of brainy crime lab Read More

The Dark Side of the Force

Movies about corrupt cops are as common as road kill. But you rarely see one as skillfully directed, intensely acted and consistently gripping as Ron Shelton’s Dark Blue . The conflicted cops and twisted underworld killers who have turned the mind of writer James Ellroy into a lurid but fascinating kind of brainy crime lab Read More