Colin

LATEST ARTICLES ( 313 )

• Forty Guns (1957)

  

  Colin:A good piece on Fuller’s western, featured on an excellent site, which I’d urge people to pop over and read, and browse around generally. Originally poste... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Lawless Street

  

  The snarling beast… can’t you hear it growling out there? Listen! This town is like a wild animal in chains, Molly. It doesn’t fight back right away, it just... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Readers Choice 4

  

  I haven’t run one of these polls for a while now so I thought I’d resurrect the idea and throw the decision of what movie will be featured next open to the... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Forty Guns – Upcoming Blu-ray

  

  Fans of Sam Fuller should be very pleased to see that Forty Guns, his 1957 western starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan and Dean Jagger, is coming in a dua... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Cape Fear

  

  Recently, I wrote about Brainstorm, commenting on its connections to classic film noir. Another movie from the same decade, albeit a few years earlier, with an... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Broken Lance

  

  Remakes have popped up here from time to time in the past and they often divide opinion among movie fans, not only based on their relative merits but also on... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Lisbon

  

  There were lots of changes taking place in filmmaking in the mid-50s. Actors were trying heir hand at directing and/or producing, location shooting was growing... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Jeopardy

  

  You’re smart… honest. I like smart women. They got cat in ’em.Current trends in cinema indicate that audiences prefer ever-increasing running times, or at... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Good Day for a Hanging

  

  Since when is a young rattlesnake any less poisonous than an old one?First and foremost, a good film needs to be entertaining. The more interesting ones ask... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Tony Rome

  

  This isn’t a family. It’s just a bunch of people living at the same address. Trends in cinema are constantly changing with genres rising and falling in... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Shotgun

  

  Certain directors seem to get mentioned or name checked quite a lot on this site, particularly in discussions following on from the main posts. Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ceiling Zero

  

  If you spend any time watching, discussing, reading or writing about movies, then the auteur theory is one which will inevitably cross your mind. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Secret of the Incas

  

  Certain movies just seem to stick in the mind for one reason or another, sometimes not the whole film but a scene or two or maybe even only part of a scene. Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Brainstorm

  

  By the 60s film noir, in its pure form, had become a thing of the past. Still, movies kept coming along that borrowed from its style, wove the imagery and... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Battle at Apache Pass

  

  You might be forgiven for thinking the concept of the sequel or prequel was an invention of modern-day Hollywood, such is the frequency with which it is... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Dark Passage

  

  Lie still. Hold your breath and cross your fingers.I’m not a great believer in coincidences; sure they occur from time to time but too many of them all... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Gunfighter

  

  How come I’ve got to run into a squirt like you nearly every place I go these days? What are you trying to do? Show off for your friends? Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Doolins of Oklahoma

  

  Movies inspired by real life historical people and events can sometimes come in for a bit of stick. It’s common enough to read reviews and see complaints that... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Crooked Way

  

  Confusion and disorientation, a world suddenly tipped out of kilter, false and mistaken identities – such phenomena are par for the course in the film noir... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• One-Eyed Jacks

  

  Some films can be extraordinarily difficult to write about; they may be overly complex or annoyingly abstract, their essence forever dancing tantalizingly beyon... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES