Tagged: western

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

May 13, 2020

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #22: Monte Hellman’s Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

May 13, 2020

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #21: Monte Hellman’s The Shooting (1966)

2020 / david bax / movies / TCM Fest / TCM Fest 2020

April 20, 2020

TCM Classic Film Festival 2020: Special Home Edition: Part One, by David Bax

As you are probably aware if you’re reading this, in lieu of what was supposed to have been the 11th annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood this past weekend, the network devised a “Special Home Edition.” For four days...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 4, 2019

The Wind: Upon the Devil’s Lake, by David Bax

What seems like ten full minutes goes by in Emma Tammi’s eye-catching new film The Wind before anyone speaks a word of dialogue. There’s not exactly a wagonload more of them that follow, either. The starkness is emblematic of life...

Craig Schroeder / home video hovel / movies / reviews

January 31, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Appaloosa, by Craig Schroeder

The Appaloosa sees Marlon Brando as Mateo, a tormented soul looking for revenge. A buffalo hunter and soldier only a decade or so removed from the Civil War, Mateo (or Matt, as only the credits call him) returns to his...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

January 16, 2019

Home Video Hovel: El Paso, by David Bax

Before watching Lewis R. Foster’s 1949 Western El Paso, I probably couldn’t have described to you, off the top of my head, what Cinecolor was. But within a few seconds of the opening scene, I could have told you confidently that...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

December 19, 2018

I Do Movies Badly: 3 Godfathers

As you can clearly see, 3 Godfathers isn’t Less Than Zero. 3 Godfathers also isn’t a great metaphor for the story of the three wise men. That doesn’t mean, however, that it isn’t a fine Christmas film.

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

November 2, 2018

Home Video Hovel: Greaser’s Palace, by David Bax

I mean, I guess Greaser’s Palace is a Western. What else would you call it? It takes place in a tiny, dusty town in what is clearly meant to be the old American Southwest. But then a character in a...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

October 29, 2018

Home Video Hovel: The Great Silence, by David Bax

Sergio Corbucci’s The Great Silence belongs to a small but beguiling subgenre, the “snow western.” The decision to set a tale of gunslingers and pioneers in such a harsh climate is about more than just seeing snow accumulating on Stetson hats or...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 21, 2018

Damsel: Distressingly Funny, by David Bax

Directors David and Nathan Zellner may have upped the star power with Damsel, their Western follow-up to 2014’s Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, but no one could accuse them of making a star vehicle. Even in his brief cameo in the...

Tagged: western

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #22: Monte Hellman’s Ride in the Whirlwind (1966)

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #21: Monte Hellman’s The Shooting (1966)

TCM Classic Film Festival 2020: Special Home Edition: Part One, by David Bax

The Wind: Upon the Devil’s Lake, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The Appaloosa, by Craig Schroeder

Home Video Hovel: El Paso, by David Bax

I Do Movies Badly: 3 Godfathers

Home Video Hovel: Greaser’s Palace, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The Great Silence, by David Bax

Damsel: Distressingly Funny, by David Bax

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