Colin

LATEST ARTICLES ( 313 )

• Act of Violence

  

  You’re the same man you were in Germany. You did it once, and you’ll do it again. What do you care about one more man? You sent ten along already. Sure, you’re... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Branded

  

  All my life, I’ve been a snake. I’ve lived by my wits. I’ve gotten what I’ve wanted any way I wanted it. Just lately I’ve been wondering just for once if I... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Third Man

  

  Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ride a Crooked Trail

  

  Anyone who has been a regular, or even occasional, visitor to this site will be aware of my fondness for westerns of the 1950s. Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Readers Choice 3

  

  I reckon it’s time to feature another Audie Murphy western and I’ve narrowed it down to two options. Seeing as it’s been a while since I offered readers a chanc... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Movie Adaptations

  

  Where do our favorite movies come from? A fair few have been, and continue to be, the result of original scripts but many are adaptations. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Underrated Westerns

  Just wanted to let readers know that Brian at Rupert Pupkin Speaks has been running a feature on underrated westerns recently and getting contributions from... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Angel Face

  

  I don’t pretend to know what goes on behind that pretty little face of yours; I don’t want to. But I learned one thing very early. Never be the innocent... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Distant Trumpet

  

  It’s been remarked on before how the 1960s saw a gradual change in approach adopted by the Hollywood western. And it was indeed gradual, up until the middle of... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Suspect

  

  A man trapped in a hellish domestic situation and driven over the edge by intolerable circumstances, challenged by a hydra-like fate at every turn. It sounds... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The House of the Seven Hawks

  

  (1959) has a potentially interesting premise. There’s an American charter boat skipper with a laid-back approach to the law operating out of a foreign port,... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Hanging Tree

  

  I came to town to search for gold And I brought with me a memory And I seemed to hear the night winds cry Go hang your dreams on the hanging tree Your dreams... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Stand at Apache River

  

  Something I like to do on this site is feature a mix of the better and lesser known films. When it comes to the latter category there’s no shortage of candidate... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Black Book

  

  Recently, I’ve been watching a fair bit of film noir, and indeed mulling over and discussing exactly what does or does not constitute noir. Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Man in the Saddle

  

  The collaboration of actors and directors is a favorite area for analysis by film critics – Ford and Wayne, Mann and Stewart, Huston and Bogart readily spring t... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Night Has a Thousand Eyes

  

  I’d become a sort of a reverse zombie. I was living in a world already dead, and I alone knowing it.Film noir is at heart a fatalistic genre. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 2013 in Review & Thanks!

  

  A new year is just round the corner so it’s nice to be able to celebrate some of the high points of the last 12 months. Overall, it’s been a pretty successful... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Color Noir

  

  Sounds like a contradiction in terms, doesn’t it? There are those who have deep reservations about applying the noir label to any film not shot in black and... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Day of Fury

  

  That man is a creature of hell. If he stays here, he’ll turn this town into a hell.Quite a few westerns have served as social commentaries, using their... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Six Years

  

  Just a quick post here to acknowledge the fact that this place will have been open for business for six years tomorrow. Sadly, as I’m sure regular visitors... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES