by Travis Mills | Apr 11, 2022 | 12 Westerns in 12 Months
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 153: Day of the Outlaw (1959) Though many consider this a great Western and...
by Travis Mills | Mar 27, 2022 | 12 Westerns in 12 Months
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 151: Man in the Saddle It’s odd that the collaboration between Budd...
by Travis Mills | Feb 2, 2022 | 12 Westerns in 12 Months
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 143: Young Billy Young Budd Boetticher (arguably the greatest director of Westerns)...
by Travis Mills | Dec 9, 2019 | 12 Westerns in 12 Months
Each Monday, I share reviews of Westerns I’m studying to prepare for making 12 Westerns in 12 Months during 2020. I am watching these films not from an audience perspective but as a filmmaker, as a student of the genre. Week Thirty Two: Matewan & The...
by Travis Mills | Jul 22, 2017 | Blood Country
I had some fun recently on a long drive fantasizing about what our upcoming release Blood Country would look like if it was a 1950s Western film instead of a modern day movie. Of course, I love the classics of this genre, especially the ones directed by John Ford,...