Colin

LATEST ARTICLES ( 313 )

• The Plunderers

  

  A new decade heralds change, or at least that would appear to be the received wisdom. It's tempting to see it like Janus, as a point of transition gazing both... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2020 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Duel at Silver Creek

  

  Pulp, a word that usually ends up being employed in a derogatory way. It suggests the cheap, the disposable, and that sense of something a bit crude and tawdry... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Planet of the Vampires

  

  Impressions and influences, those are the two items on the agenda today. It wouldn't be much of a movie that didn't make some kind of an impression, good or bad... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Detective Story

  

  Cinema and theater, two near relatives in the visual/performance art sphere, both well suited to the presentation of drama via their shared familial traits whil... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Some Info on a Sam Fuller Movie Sought…

  

  A brief request here. Someone just contacted me in relation to Sam Fuller's feature debut , which I wrote about over a decade ago, to see if I could help. What... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Colt .45

  

  In almost a dozen years of writing about a wide range of movies in general, and westerns more than any other genre, I've tried to point out the type of film I... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Arrow in the Dust

  

  Unfulfilled promise, is there anything more disappointing? I'm talking about movies here, of course, and not life in general. This may not be the most enticing... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Rough Shoot

  

  Hitchcockian is a word that ought to be reasonably common for anyone familiar with the movie reviewing/commentary world. Mind you, time was the term got recycle... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Reprisal!

  

  I get a kick out of looking at the way trends and perspectives develop and evolve. Anyone who has followed along on my journey through cinema over the last... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Pillars of the Sky

  

  Over the years there has been a good deal of ill-informed, and one might even say uninformed, material written and spoken about the classic western, and the... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Spin a Dark Web

  

  How essential is the femme fatale in film noir? Sure her presence is one of the characteristics you will hear mentioned time and again should you ask people... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Ride Back

  

  I've never been a success at anything I tried to do. Anything I ever tried to do ever, failed. I've been a failure and that's all, a plain old failure. But I'm... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Floods of Fear

  

  There's drama to be found in extremes, which may be of the economic, political, social or emotional variety. The latter is, of course, the most engaging and... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Three Steps to the Gallows

  

  Last summer I spent a long time trawling through a range of British crime movies, and had a most enjoyable time in the process. I can't promise to devote the... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• This Side of the Law

  

  Years ago, when I took my first tentative steps into the world of blogging, I wanted to find some means of talking about the movies which I found interesting.... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Four Guns to the Border

  

  Generic and predictable - aren't those terms we've all seen tossed casually and in derogatory fashion towards westerns before? Yet generic is no sort of... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

  

  Graft and gangsters on the waterfront probably evoke thoughts of Brando, Kazan et al, but there was more than one movie to make use of that particular milieu.... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Indian Uprising

  

  So many things seem to be connected. And once you move into the field of the arts, and particularly cinema, this becomes all the more noticeable. Film fans ten... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Outcasts of Poker Flat

  

  If there's one thing that turns my stomach, it's respectability. By the 1950s the western itself could be said to have attained something very close to... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Turning Point

  

  Organized crime, corruption and graft became increasingly common features of film noir as it moved into the 1950s. Those unattractive yet perennial problems... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES