Fall Back: Year of Bests – 2017
A few years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up…
Summer’s Heat: Year of Bests – 2017
A few years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up…
Spring Thaw: Year of Bests – 2017
A few years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up…
On the Verge: Year of Bests – 2016
A few years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up…
Fall Back: Year of Bests – 2016
A few years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up…
Summer Storms: Year of Bests – 2016
A few years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns up…
Decades Blogathon – The Outlaw Josey Wales
Originally posted on three rows back:
It’s day four of the Decades Blogathon – 6 edition – hosted by myself and the awesome Tom from Digital…
Opening Titles: The Wild Bunch
Say what you will about “The Western” as a genre of film, or television, but it had way more versatility than some credit it. For something that seemed…
Brokeback Mountain Film Review
As we’ve restarted our duo post series for the year, it’s good to be back in the saddle again, as Gene Autry would say. If you’re…
Hombre Film Review
The blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy and I return to kick off the back nine of 2014 with our duo post book slash movie reviews. What? Not into golf metaphors?…
Reblogged » Elmore’s Favorite Westerns
Elmore’s Favorite Westerns “Elmore chose the Western genre to break into writing because he loved Western movies. He grew up in the Golden Age of the…
Tales from the (Movie) Theater: Of Westerns, Dramas, and JAWS (Part 9)
By week three, all of the working projectionists could perform a changeover without watching for cue marks. We knew the movie so well we could do it by listening to the soundtrack and dialog alone. No one was happier to see it go than the crew in the booth (we were so sick of it). I couldn’t re-watch that movie again till sometime in the 90s.
A Close That’s a Beginning: Year of Bests – 2012
If last year is to be believed (seems so long ago now), I began a change, as I mentioned in April. Previously, I did not have a…
TMT: Vision Versus Bifocals
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. Since I am in the midst of my own little…
An Appreciation: Unforgiven
Some years ago, the writer and movie blogger known as Mr. Peel examined John Wayne‘s final film, The Shootist, in another of his splendid film essays.…
Reprise: It’s the Little Things in Wyler’s The Big Country
A couple of years back, my umpteenth viewing of one of my all-time favorite westerns on Turner Classic Movies, William Wyler’s The Big Country, had the whole family…
Friday Forgotten Film: Red Sun
It’s funny how fish-out-of-water concepts make their way on to films. Specifically, when characters and cultures find themselves literally on foreign soil. For instance, East meets West tales…
Not Just Another Western: The Quick and The Dead
Blogger’s note: This post was part of Bryce Wilson’s Raimifest that went on at his wonderful Things That Don’t Suck blog. If you’ve read some of my…
It Rains... You Get Wet 