Skip to content

Mikkel Frederiksen

Main
Reviews

Tag: los angeles

Seven Psychopaths (2012)

August 24, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Firecracker pile-on

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2010s, 2012, abbie cornish, action, christopher walken, colin farrell, comedy, film review, harry dean stanton, los angeles, martin mcdonagh, meta, michael pitt, michael stuhlbarg, movie review, olga kurylenko, seven psychopaths, tom waits, woody harrelson

To Live And Die In L.A. (1985)

April 8, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

The sauce, the juice, the stuff

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1985, acab, action, cool, dean stockwell, debra feuer, los angeles, money forging, movie review, rogue cop, ronald reagan, to live and die in l.a., wang chung, willem dafoe, william petersen

Angel Face (1952)

March 18, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Deceptive in nature

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, 1952, angel face, car crash, femme fatale, film noir, frank s. nugent, jean simmons, los angeles, movie review, murder, murder trial, oscar millard, otto preminger, robert mitchum

Hardcore (1979)

September 23, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Smut and skin, but no soul-searching

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1970s, 1979, george c. scott, los angeles, paul schrader, pornography, religion, review, sex work

Shakedown (2018)

June 11, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Pride before Pride™

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2010s, 2018, documentary, leilah weinraub, lesbianism, lgbtq+, los angeles, pride, sex work, shakedown

Criminal Passion (1994)

April 4, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Erotic third-wave feminism

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1990s, 1994, criminal passion, donna deitch, erotic, erotic thriller, feminism, joan severance, john allen nelson, kristin m burke, los angeles, max strom, murder, police, sex, thriller, wendy blackstone

Deep Cover (1992)

October 15, 2022November 25, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Justice reform, but make it extra

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1990s, 1992, bill duke, boyz n the hood, charles martin smith, deep cover, drug war, drugs, henry bean, jeff goldblum, laurence fishburne, los angeles, rap, undercover

Licorice Pizza (2021)

March 1, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Run, don't walk, to see Licorice Pizza

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2021, 70s, alana haim, bradley cooper, cooper hoffman, licorice pizza, los angeles, paul thomas anderson, romance, taboo

The Limey (1999)

December 4, 2021 Mikkel Frederiksen3 Comments

What’s cockney slang for slick?

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1990s, 1999, cliff martinez, english, los angeles, mystery, neo noir, peter fonda, steven soderbergh, terence stamp, the limey

Point Blank (1967)

September 18, 2021 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Cold as a razor, hot like like a dream

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1960s, 1967, anti-establishment, crime, film noir, john boorman, lee marvin, los angeles, revenge

Subscribe Subscribed
- Mikkel Frederiksen
- Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.