Frederick Cipoletti's crime yarn 'Desolate' is set amid farmlands suffering apocalyptic drought. By John DeFore Frederick Cipoletti’s Desolate begins in familiar post-apocalyptic fashion, with shots ...
Desolate claims to be an old-style western jazzed up with new-style ideas, but it’s nothing new and the pulverizing violence has been done before, in gangster pictures with cowboy hats. Slogging along ...