by Travis Mills | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on four 80s horror movies programmed by Criterion Channel. Near Dark (1987) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars This was my second look at Kathryn Bigelow’s vampire film. The last time...
by Travis Mills | Oct 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
As Americans, our greatest weakness might be our inability to remember what happened two weeks ago. The news cycle is almost designed to make us forget. Our lives are also too busy, too full of information to retain what happened in the months or years before. That...
by Travis Mills | Oct 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Each Monday, I continue to share Western movie reviews. I have now launched a podcast about the making of Westerns and the overall filmmaking process. Click here to listen. Week 179: Cattle Empire (1958) What stands out most about Charles Marquis...
by Travis Mills | Oct 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Near the beginning of John Carpenter’s paranoid horror film In The Mouth of Madness, a character proclaims, “Nothing surprises me. We fucked up the air, the water, we fucked up each other. Why don’t we just finish the job by just flushing our...
by Travis Mills | Oct 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
In all my recent conversations about the Western genre, whenever the subject of Dwight Yoakam’s only directorial debut comes up, it is already met with a negative reaction. I saw the movie years ago and have retained fond memories of it so it was time to...
by Travis Mills | Oct 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Each Monday, I continue to share Western movie reviews. I have now launched a podcast about the making of Westerns and the overall filmmaking process. Click here to listen. Week 178: Trooper Hook (1957) My study of director Charles Marquis Warren’s...
