The End of Cinema

This week, we tackle a pair of sci-fi classics with discussions of Michael Anderson's 1976 film   Logan's Run  and Andrew Stanton...

The military as a vehicle for the assimilation of a despised minority is an oft-recurring subject for John Ford, hanging around the margi...

Not a perfect film, but there are a lot of perfect things in it. As such it's a perfect example of Ford's tendency to let the sma...

It's been a a couple weeks since I updated these, so it's more like this three weeks in rankings, but whatever. Since the last up...

This week we explore some romantic geometry with James Gray's 2008 film Two Lovers and François Truffaut's  Two English Girls fr...

Tom Doniphon shoots the outlaw thug Liberty Valance from the shadows, keeps it a secret, then realizes that his girl Hallie is i...

I've declared this the summer of 2013 to be the Summer of Sammo. Throughout these months I've been writing about films ...

I've declared this the summer of 2013 to be the Summer of Sammo. Throughout these months I've been writing about films st...

This week we journey to the Bay Area, sort of, for a pair of movies that are kind of set in San Francisco, Phil Alden Robinson's all-...

I've declared this the summer of 2013 to be the Summer of Sammo. Throughout these months I've been writing about films starring o...

Every time I see Fort Apache , I think 'Surely this must be Ford's best film.' But I say the same about a half d...

I've declared this the summer of 2013 to be the Summer of Sammo. Throughout these months I've been writing about films starring o...

I've declared this the summer of 2013 to be the Summer of Sammo. Throughout these months I've been writing about films starring o...

I've declared this the summer of 2013 to be the Summer of Sammo. Throughout these months I've been writing about films starring o...

I've declared this the summer of 2013 to be the Summer of Sammo. Throughout these months I've been writing about films starring o...