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I don’t see the point of this film other than as a cautionary tale on the miseries of syphilis, a message put across more effectively by those public safety shorts made back in the 30’s and into the 60’s. A reflection on the last year of America’s most notorious hoodlum, this film generated zero dramatic […] Although a beautiful, finely made film, this is also the saddest Western I’ve ever seen, tragic to the point of heartbreak. This makes sense since it takes an unflinching look at the real frontier experience and is definitely not some Hollywood fantasy. Three women in mid-19th Century Nebraska go mad from the strain of living […] This film basically takes the incident from Gone With The Wind where Scarlett shoots a Union soldier and Melly helps her hide the body and fleshes it out into a full length film described as a revisionist Western, but it strikes me as more accurately characterized as a horror movie with a naturalistic, Civil War […] This is a hardboiled, downright brutal at times, Australian “Western” along the lines of The Proposition, but with a more stripped down plot and a deeper focus on the nation-continent’s racism, specifically white persecution of aboriginals. Set in 1922, the film puts you in the middle of things from the start: three white policeman in […]
The late, great George “Gabby” Hayes, King of the Old Hollywood western sidekicks, once gave his opinion of the genre. “I […] I’ve come across some bizarre characters in biographies, particularly American bios for some reason. We may not be exceptional in other ways, but we sure lead the pack in producing notable head cases. Two salient examples are Howard Hughes and L. Ron Hubbard. Yet of all the oddballs I’ve encountered, Charles Lindbergh is one of […]
Trick Roller, my hardboiled crime/horror short story about a Las Vegas whore who drugs her johns and then robs them, has been accepted for publication by Coffin Bell Journal, a journal of dark literature that goes beyond […]
According to the IMDB webpage for The Texan, although one of hundreds made by Paramount whose rights were sold for TV distribution in the industry’s early days, this film has apparently NEVER been broadcast until March 2020, a gap of nearly a century since it was […] The early ’70’s were a weird time of flux in the movie industry. The break up of the old studio system along with the replacement of the Hayes Code by the much more permissive rating system led to a lot of different, daring experiments in film, some rated as among the most interesting, challenging efforts […] He probably wants to steal everything you have and make you his slave. |
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