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 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 | Aug 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
I continue to study the Western genre. I have now launched a podcast about the making of Western films. Listen here This film is mostly forgotten for good reasons. I wondered when it popped up on HBO Max why I’d never heard mention of it, especially since...
by Travis Mills | Jul 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. Hustle (2022) Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Stars Well, someone finally made the basketball equivalent of Moneyball. Though Hustle is a fictional and a more conventional sports movie, it shares much in...
by Travis Mills | Jul 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. Mad God (2022) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars Mad God is certainly the visual spectacle that everyone claims it to be. Like Mad Max: Fury Road, it feels like stepping inside the mind of a mad man. And...