In 1997, long-simmering tensions between jocks and punks in Amarillo, Texas, exploded in a violent parking-lot brawl. Some participants carried baseball bats, some twirled heavy steel chains. But one football player had a Cadillac as a weapon, and used it to kill Brian Deneke, a 19-year-old beloved on the punk scene. Two decades later, Amarillo native Jameson Brooks looks at the build-up to and shameful aftermath of this crime in Bomb City, an empathetic drama ready to put straight-laced audiences in the shoes of a maligned subculture. Assured and effective, it deserves a wider release than it is getting from...
- 2/8/2018
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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