Colin

LATEST ARTICLES ( 313 )

• The Crooked Way in HD

  

  I really like The Crooked Way, a frequently overlooked film noir, and wrote about it here back at the beginning of the year. The new Blu-ray (also available on... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Comanche

  

  So that’s the way it is. Comanches kill Mexicans to get even with the Spanish. And the Mexicans kill Comanche in revenge for that. It’s become a way of life. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Thunder in the East

  

  An exotic locale, a morally dubious lead, and a set of circumstances with all the potential of a powder keg in a raging inferno – this is the kind of scenario... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• I Walked with a Zombie

  

  Everything seems beautiful because you don’t understand. Those flying fish, they’re not leaping for joy, they’re jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Last Posse

  

  Small films with big themes, that’s perhaps as good a summation of the successful B movie as any. Low budget films were always capable of using a superficially... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Day of the Outlaw – Coming on Blu-ray

  This marvelous western, which I reckon may well be Andre de Toth’s finest movie, and which I’ve written about here in the past, is to be released on dual... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Dakota Incident

  

  Republic Pictures was in business between 1935 and the late 50s, primarily concerned with producing B features or programmers the studio nevertheless produced... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Walk a Tightrope

  

  The B movie tends to get a bad press, attention is often drawn to the cheapness, caliber of stars or sometimes just out and out trashiness. Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Underrated ’55

  I’ve contributed a few times to Brian’s “Underrated” series over at Rupert Pupkin Speaks, compiling lists of westerns and thrillers before now. Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Guns of Darkness

  

  I’ve been making an effort lately to see more new films, or perhaps I should say new to me rather than newly produced movies. Through a combination of blind buy... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Moonlighter

  

  Over a sixteen year period, starting in 1940 and ending in 1956, Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck made four movies together, the most famous probably being... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Badlanders

  

  It seems like everybody around here is stealing from everybody else.A good heist movie is hard to beat in my opinion, there’s considerable potential for suspens... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Rails Into Laramie

  

  There are so many Universal-International westerns that you could pretty much run a blog devoted entirely to the studio’s output alone. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Edge of Eternity

  

  As a major fan of westerns I have great fondness for those films which, while not belonging in the genre proper, are set in the American west. Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Dawn at Socorro

  

  – Who’s coming after you? – My past. Every dark, miserable day of it.I guess that short exchange, coming near the end of the movie, sums up much of what Dawn... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ten of the Best – Noir Directors

  

  It’s been a while now since I tried my hand at compiling one of these lists. Having already covered western directors and stars, as well as noir stars (all of... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Long and the Short and the Tall

  

  It’s war. It’s something in a uniform. It’s a different shade from mine.War movies fall into two broad categories: those which could be described as the “Boys’... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Silver Whip

  

  As far as I’m concerned, one of the great pleasures of maintaining this site, maybe the greatest if I’m honest, derives from the feedback received. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• I Confess

  

  Hitchcock films get mentioned and written about all the time, but it’s almost always the same dozen or so that receive all the attention and plaudits. Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• It Came from Outer Space

  

  – It’s alive. – And yet it looks so dead out there. – Oh no, it’s alive and waiting for you, ready to kill you if you go too far. The sun will get you, or the... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES