Futureworld (1976) is a cheapass sequel starring Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner, people you’ll think you’ll recognize from other things you might have seen. Peter was the rebel of the Fonda family, and… Continue reading
John Wayne’s the War Wagon (1967) is everything In Harm’s Way (1965) is not. You might say Westerns are more familiar territory for John Wayne, but it may be that he saw how… Continue reading
Quentin Tarantino has seen a LOT of movies, and borrowed from most of them to make his own speghetti westerns and his own revenge films, but they all pale in comparison to Death… Continue reading
Unforgiven was Clint Eastwood’s swan song for Westerns, but Lonely Are the Brave is the real metaphor for the confrontation between old and new. The movie insists that the cowboy has no place in… Continue reading
Most people I know are not fans of Westerns, but a good majority know that The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) is a good movie, which means they probably know that… Continue reading
High Plains Drifter (1973) is one of my favorite films, but John Wayne wrote a pointed letter to Clint Eastwood after he saw it, explaining that it was crap. Wayne said that The… Continue reading
I think even director Sam Raimi will admit that there are a lot of clichés in The Quick and the Dead (1995), but he guns them down like a satire or a black… Continue reading
Quentin Tarantino has said on many occasions that his favorite film is The Good, the bad, and the Ugly (1968), a movie so well-regarded and so influencing that it could be the best… Continue reading
I’m not sure what more can be said about a defining classic like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but this 1969 movie ultimately makes you root for the bad guys. My friend… Continue reading
The story of Unforgiven is like a final page in a book about westerns, perhaps mirroring the career of Clint Eastwood, and gives us a gritty, realistic west. The beginning of the movie… Continue reading
