Category: Repo Man movies

  • Repo Chick (2009, Alex Cox)

    If Repo Chick were a half hour short, it would work a lot better. Sadly, it’s an almost ninety minute feature–even as a seventy minute feature, it’d be a lot better. The problem’s the front end. Cox has to introduce his cast, sure, but he never manages to give the film a real narrative. He…

  • Repo Man (1984, Alex Cox)

    For such an “odd” movie, Repo Man is incredibly precise. Writer-director Cox has four or five subplots–depending on if Emilio Estevez becoming a repo man and his journey as one is considered the plot, as Cox downgrades it to subplot status about three-quarters through the picture. Sometimes these subplots become so intense they jumble–I had…