I’m just going to get this out of the way right at the start: even though I’m incredibly hyped for the upcoming “Dune” movie from director Denis Villeneuve, I’m not really all that interested in the novel it’s based on. “Dune” by Frank Herbert is considered to be a science
Normally at this time of the year, I’d be sitting down to write a summer movie recap, reflecting on the hits (and misses), what were the biggest surprises and disappointments, and so on. By this point in 2020, I planned to have seen “Wonder Woman 1984,” Christopher Nolan’s espionage thriller
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to watch a movie about Kylo Ren and James Bond robbing a vault at a NASCAR speedway during the middle of a race? Well, have I got a movie for you! To be fair, “Logan Lucky” isn’t actually about Kylo Ren
As you’ve probably noticed, I really like writing about Star Wars. I write (and think!) about Star Wars more than any other pop culture franchise, and I recently wrote a probably way-too-long piece for “May the Fourth” on what Star Wars has meant to me over the years. Does the
Well, it looks like it’s time for the “Better Late than Never blog series…goes west” to ride off into the sunset. It’s been a great journey, and overall I’ve really enjoyed diving deeper into a genre I once thought I didn’t like. I’ll still always have a special place in
Have you ever watched a movie and thought, “I think that was a good movie, but I didn’t actually like it?” That’s exactly what I thought after watching “Once Upon a Time in the West.” I decided to watch “Once Upon a Time in the West” next in my Western
So technically, “Hell or High Water” (2016) wasn’t on my original short list of films to watch for the “Better Late than Never…goes west” blog series. It’s also a bit of an outlier compared to the other films I’ve watched for the series. While I’ve watched some Westerns that were
The new DC Comics movie “Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)” made about $33 million at the domestic box office this weekend. Now, I personally would love to make that much money in a single weekend, but for a big-budget superhero blockbuster, that number was
So far I’ve really enjoyed all four Westerns I’ve watched for this blog series (actually five if you count the film that inspired this blog series in the first place: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”). However, it was probably inevitable that I’d run across one that I didn’t
When it comes to Westerns, I’ve learned that the magic word for me is “revisionist.” “Revisionist Westerns” are a subgenre deviating from the classic Westerns of earlier decades, with their noble heroes and more straight-forward themes. Revisionist Westerns present the view that the American West wasn’t necessarily a magical land
I’m pretty sure that I’ve already confessed on my blog at some point that I’m not the biggest fan of John Wayne. I don’t have anything against him personally; it’s just that many of the classic Westerns I’ve seen him in aren’t really my personal style. I tend to gravitate
In some ways, the Western genre is just as much about fantasy as it is about history. Classic Westerns present us with tales of noble heroes fighting outlaws and preserving the peace, set against a backdrop of sweeping, wide-open plains and brilliant blue skies. Of course, the reality of life
