Pale Rider | 50 Furious Westerns
Slated by critics, loved by his fans, this over-cooked, over-ambitious, over-everything western, Pale Rider (1984), Clint Eastwood’s third as a director, offers both the...
Author: Simon Gelten
Two Mules for Sister Sara | 50 Furious Westerns
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1969 / Director: Don Siegel) was written by Bud Boetticher with the idea that he’d also be the director of...
John Woo’s The Killer
The Killer (1989) was John Woo‘s breakthrough movie in the West. It was not a commercial success at home and ironically Woo had some...
John Woo’s Better Tomorrow Trilogy
When you think of Hong Kong movies of times past, John Woo‘s bullet opera classics feature rather prominently. Aside from Shaw Brothers martial arts...
Better Watch Out
It will be scary this Christmas … If you don’t like Christmas, you can always watch a horror movie. There are quite a few...
Hell or High Water
Hell or High Water opens with a scene of two masked men holding up a small bank. It’s the first of a string of...
City Heat
City Heat – Fedora hats, moustaches and an empty briefcase It is said that this film was born out of the desire of both...
Aliens
Rewatching Old Favorites – The Alien Quadrology: Part II – ALIENS (1986, Director: James Cameron) The premise of the first movie, a crew trapped...
The Dark Valley – Das Finstere Tal
In the heydays of the spaghetti western, Sergio Corbucci shot a couple of westerns in the Alpes, notably The Great Silence and The Specialists....
Alien
Rewatching Old Favorites – The Alien Quadrology: Part I – ALIEN (1979, Director: Ridley Scott) Christmas time is a great time to rewatch old...
