Life Before STAR WARS: Dead Genres
A Bridge Too Far doesn’t really have much in common with Star Wars, but in…
Forgotbusters: the Early Years | THE TRAIN (1965)
Why The Train Shouldn’t Be Forgotten, or 10 Things Action Filmmakers Need to Remember John…
Film on the Internet: RONIN (1998) on Amazon Prime
Like Sneakers, Ronin feels like a 1970s movie that somehow got made in the 1990s. The plot…
Scenic Route: FRENCH CONNECTION II (1975)
Action movies do not draw their unholy power from spectacle but from intensity, and I…
Halloween Psych-Out – Part 3: Seconds
Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man” (1965) memorably wrote off the established Company Man,…