by Travis Mills | Feb 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Each Monday, I continue to share Western movie reviews. For more of my movie reviews, click here to follow me on Letterboxd. Week 192: Bucking Broadway (1917) This early John Ford effort is not a traditional Western in terms of focusing on pioneer life...
by Travis Mills | Dec 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Here comes another winter Western I’d never heard of, programmed this season by Criterion Channel. And like The Secret of Convict Lake, it’s a surprisingly good film. Stewart Granger plays a French trapper. Yes, his accent takes a little getting...
by Travis Mills | Dec 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three films, all directed by Henry Hathaway, programmed as part of Criterion Channel’s “Noirvember” Kiss of Death (1947) Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars I...
by Travis Mills | Oct 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
It occurs to me that B-Westerns like this might be a better example to study for independent filmmakers than classics like Red River and Stagecoach. After all, the work of Hawks and Ford is often impenetrable, easy to admire from afar but not simple to go out...
by Travis Mills | Jul 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. Round Midnight (1986) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars I really had no business seeing this film two decades ago. I didn’t appreciate jazz and certainly couldn’t comprehend the...
