The Running Wild Blog

My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three Film Noir classics I'd never seen before.   STRANGE FASCINATION (1952) Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars My friend Gus mentioned Hugo Haas to be years ago but I never took the...

For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd.   GO WEST (1925) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars We recently screened Buster Keaton's GO WEST at our third annual Tombstone Film Festival. I programmed the film as a 100 year anniversary screening but...

My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on the first and second of Christian Gudegast's DEN OF THIEVES films.   DEN OF THIEVES (2018) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars The comparisons to HEAT kept me away from DEN OF THIEVES....

For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd.   BAD GIRLS (1994) Rating: 2 out of 5 Stars Look, I had to see it eventually. Though I dreaded watching this 90s Western flop, it also satisfied the curiosity I've had since glaring at the cover...

My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three Alfred Hitchcock movies I'd never seen before.   THE WRONG MAN (1956) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars You wouldn't know this is a Hitchcock movie without the titles and the...

For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd.   SOLDIER BLUE (1970) Rating: 2 out of 5 Stars This might be the most tonally confused Western I've ever seen. In a written preamble, SOLDIER BLUE announces its self-important aims to portray...

My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on four films I watched as a reference for a screenplay I recently wrote, a thriller called HUNT THE EDGE about D.B. Cooper.   THE GREY (2011) Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars I avoided...

  “What will happen from here, I do not know. Will I go on to produce more projects like THE PENDRAGON CYCLE? Will I return to directing my own work? The future is unknown and I embrace that uncertainty, ready for the next adventure.” Those were the last words of...

  My list will probably look quite different than others. As usual, I didn't see most of the prestige pictures that make top ten lists for film fans and critics. Most I skipped intentionally and one or two I just haven't been able to track down yet (namely THE...