Let’s get one thing out of the way here: I’ve never been a big fan of Westerns. Something about their stories just felt repetitive, so they never resonated with me growing up, or even once […]
It’s like Gone with the Wind on Mescalin. That’s how the main character John Kelso, of the film, Midnight in the Garden in the Good and Evil (1997), describes his time in Savannah, Georgia. His […]
Opening the same day as Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, and carrying the same self-importance and baggage, American Sniper is the unambiguous biography of real-life war hero Chris Kyle, at one time referred to as the “most […]
Deep vistas. Narrow minds. That’s the visual and thematic takeaway from The Tin Star (1957), one of director Anthony Mann’s finest achievements. Bounty Hunter Morg Hickman (Henry Fonda) rides into town with a dead outlaw slung […]
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