by Travis Mills | Feb 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three films written by, but not directed by, Paul Schrader. The Yakuza (1974) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Stars As I continue to study Paul Schrader’s directing work...
by Travis Mills | Jan 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
My weekly movie reviews. You can also read these on letterboxd. This week focuses on three John Grisham adaptations. The Firm (1993) Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars This Grisham adaptation has one of the best casts ever assembled from Cruise to Hackman to Holbrook to...
by Travis Mills | Mar 29, 2020 | 12 Westerns in 12 Months
Each Monday, I continue to share Western movie reviews as I go through the process of making my own 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 Forty Eight:...
by Travis Mills | Jul 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
In honor of the upcoming online release of our newest short, The French Spy, I have picked some of my favorite spy films, old and new, with a brief word on each: Three Days of the Condor A tense masterpiece from Sydney Pollack with a great paranoid performance by...