The Running Wild Blog
Articles on the craft of filmmaking and the films we create.MOVIE MONDAY: Reviews of Spoiled Children, Let Joy Reign Supreme, and Daddy Nostalgia
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. SPOILED CHILDREN (1977) Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars I love Bertrand Tavernier as much for his intense love...
MOVIE MONDAY: Western Movie Reviews – Week 203 – The Quick and the Dead (1987)
For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd. THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (1987) Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars I finally caught up with this TV Western, I believe the last of Sam Elliott's from this period. He's quite different in this role than he...
MOVIE MONDAY: Reviews of Where Eagles Dare, Ice Station Zebra, and You Can’t Win ‘Em All
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three films in the men-on-a-mission subgenre. WHERE EAGLES DARE (1968) Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars I watched this the other night for the umpteenth time with my friends John and...
MOVIE MONDAY: Western Movie Reviews – Week 202 – The Iron Horse
For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd. This week focuses on John Ford's early Western which we showed at the Tombstone Film Festival as a 100 year anniversary screening. THE IRON HORSE (1924) Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars We recently...
MOVIE MONDAY: Reviews of Three Adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. Having just completed my own screenplay adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short story, I watched the three previous adaptations again. THE KILLERS (1964) Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars Don Siegel's...
WHY REACHER SEASON TWO MISSED THE TARGET
When I find a good TV show, I always approach its continuation with excitement and caution. Rarely do series keep up quality season after season and ultimately there’s a point where they should have stopped and inevitably keep going. REACHER, recently returning with...
MOVIE MONDAY: Western Movie Reviews – Week 201 – 4 for Texas
For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd. This week focuses on a Western directed by Robert Aldrich starring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. 4 FOR TEXAS (1963) Rating: 1.5 out of 5 Stars The first ten minutes of 4 FOR TEXAS...
MOVIE MONDAY: Western Movie Reviews – Week 200 – Rancho Notorious
For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd. This week focuses on a Western directed by Fritz Lang. RANCHO NOTORIOUS (1952) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Stars What I've seen of Fritz Lang's work is very direct, full of style in its visuals and...
MOVIE MONDAY: Reviews of The Retirement Plan, Sympathy for the Devil, Dream Scenario, and Renfield
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. In honor of Nicolas Cage's birthday (January 7th), I caught up on nearly all of the movies he released during 2023. THE RETIREMENT PLAN (2023) Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars I spent the first week of...
2023: Year of the Pendragon
As the year comes to an end, I look back in this retrospective piece about my journey through 2023. Above: select crew and cast during the final week of filming THE PENDRAGON CYCLE, photograph by Dávid Lukács. 2023: YEAR OF THE PENDRAGON Around this time last...