The wind whips across a deserted street in a deserted town in a cold and bare Texas. A rusting pickup truck drives by, the sound of a lonesome country song playing. It’s 1951 and America has passed this slice of humanity by. ‘The Last Picture Show‘ (1971) is an extraordinary, […]
Altair Brandon-Salmon
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The Last Frontier (1956, also known as “Savage Wilderness”) is an Anthony Mann Western. It lacks his regular star James Stewart and as a marker in his career, falls between his renowned series of films with Stewart and the start of his epics with producer Samuel Bronston in 1961 with […]
Marc Forster certainly believes in bad luck. In “World War Z” (2013), Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is stuck with his family in gridlocked Philadelphian traffic when a zombie outburst reduces the population to frenzied chaos, people running screaming, panic spreading as potently as the zombie virus. Forster shoots it handheld […]