The Running Wild Blog

For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd.   THE LAST WAGON (1956) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Stars Delmer Daves is one of the filmmakers I've focused on for my THE MEN WHO MADE WESTERNS book. He might be the most underrated contributor to the...

My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on two films by Paul Schrader and two by Abel Ferrara.   LIGHT SLEEPER (1992) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars One thing's for sure, when Martin Scorsese, commenting on why he chose...

My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on two films directed by Joan Micklin Silver and starring one of my favorite actors, John Heard.   CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER (1979) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars This is my kind of...

My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three films by one of my favorite French filmmakers, Bertrand Tavernier.   THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER (2010) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Stars Bertrand Tavernier knew how to mount a...

For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd.   OUTLAWS: THE LEGEND OF O.B. TAGGART (1995) Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars   Mickey Rooney isn't an actor known for his Westerns so when I saw his name headlining this 90s TV movie, I was...

For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd.   RED RIVER (1988) Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars   This RED RIVER would be a solid TV Western if it wasn't impossible not to compare it to the Hawks masterpiece. No one can fill John Wayne's...

For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd.   RANGO (2011) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars   This is the best animated Western since FIEVEL GOES WEST. I'm not kidding, though admittedly there aren't too many animated entries in the genre!...

For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd.   STAGECOACH (1986) Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars   This 80s remake of the John Ford classic is better than it should be but it still isn't more than mediocre. With a cast of "outlaw" country...

My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three movies directed by Larry Cohen, the master of tabloid cinema.   THE AMBULANCE (1990) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars Larry Cohen's THE AMBULANCE is one whacky movie. It features a...

For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd.   THE SHOOTER (1997) Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars   The 1990s is such an underrated decade for the Western genre. Even a cheap and cheesy film like THE SHOOTER (or DEADLY SHOOTER as it is...