![]() Comedy series about four Native American teenagers growing up on a reservation in eastern Oklahoma. With Devery Jacobs, DPharaoh Woon-A-Tai, Lane Factor, Paulina Alexis. As the director of The Warriors, Hill wasn't new to flamboyant, colorful cult films with an almost fantastical urban backdrop, but Streets of Fire is arguably his most outrageous - and somehow most unheralded - effort. Reservation Dogs: Created by Sterlin Harjo, Taika Waititi. There's a rock n roll musicality to the direction that gives the whole movie a jaunty, propulsive tone. Interestingly, it's not a musical, but it feels like one. It's like a bunch of '50s-style greasers got their hands on a time machine and raided a West Hollywood thrift shop circa 1988. ![]() ![]() That being said, sometimes I'm pleasantly surprised at its more obscure selections, and this month Walter Hill's visionary 1984 film Streets of Fire popped up under "Recently Added." It's a hard movie to categorize, but I'll do my best: Imagine West Side Story but super violent and with a dash of '80s neon. More and more, the OG streaming service relies on original content rather than licensing to fill up its catalog. As a movie buff, I sometimes get frustrated with the lack of deep-cuts available on Netflix. ![]()
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