by Travis Mills | Mar 11, 2024 | Preview
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three crime films I watched as a reference for my adaptation of Hemingway’s THE KILLERS. MULHOLLAND FALLS (1996) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars I avoided this one for a while,...
by Travis Mills | Mar 11, 2024 | Preview
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on two films by Hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros and one film about her. BLOW-BALL (1965) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars I didn’t have much time to study Hungarian cinema while I was...
by Travis Mills | Feb 19, 2024 | Preview
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...
by Travis Mills | Feb 19, 2024 | Preview
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...
by Travis Mills | Mar 17, 2023 | Preview
This is the first screen adaptation I’ve seen of Bret Harte’s classic Western story, though I’ve considered translating it to cinema myself for many years. It was originally going to be one of the 12 Westerns but I couldn’t crack how to...
by Travis Mills | Mar 17, 2023 | Preview
Each Monday, I continue to share Western movie reviews. For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd. Week 196: Fighting Blood (1911) D.W. Griffith’s short Western, clocking in at only 11 minutes, is more successful than any 11...