Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Murder by Contract
At the beginning of 1958’s Murder by Contract, we know only two things about Vince…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on the Westerns of 1962
In 1962 many viewers thought that Westerns, and the Hollywood studios, were in decline. The…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Hatari!
Conventional wisdom holds that John Wayne wasn’t a great actor. He didn’t display a fastidious…
Finding Logic in the Chambers of the Human Heart: Son of Griff on O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Joel and Ethan Coen acknowledge that while George Clooney has played a variety of roles…
“It’s the Damage That We Do…”: Son of Griff on the Tempered Passion of Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces
In his first two albums, Elvis Costello achieved a sublime reconciliation of opposites by making…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on L.A. Confidential
Curtis Hanson’s screen adaptation of James Ellroy’s L.A. Confidential is often called a neo-noir, but…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Love Me Tonight
Movies are miraculous. By the nature of their technology, they invent spectacular phenomena that otherwise…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Red River
SPOILERS: The following review makes plenty of references to this film’s ending and plot developments…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Pitfall
As a genre trafficking in the subversive delights of mystery and intrigue, it seems fitting…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
If movies were geometry, Westerns would be vectors, moving in a trajectory forever into the…