Mad As Hell: The First Week of Furious Cinema
Oh man what a week it has been. We were mad as hell and we weren’t gonna take it anymore. So we started this...
CRIMEWATCH: The Sting
After working together on the smash hit western Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969), Director George Roy Hill, Robert Redford and Paul Newman...
Bukowski: Born Into This
My first encounter with the late writer Charles Bukowski’s work wasn’t through his literature, it was from watching the film Barfly (1987). It was...
Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets
In 1973, a new director named Martin Scorsese arrived on the scene and came crashing through the door of cinema with a wildly different...
Pistoleers & Pioneers Vol. 2: Ten Amazing Modern Westerns
Top lists always suck. Not only do you have to limit yourself to a certain number, but then you have to think about the...
Pistoleers & Pioneers Vol. 1: Ten Western Classics To Die For
HANNIE CAULDER (1970) (SWDB entry) – Directed by Burt Kennedy – One of Western cinema’s oldest themes is revenge. With this groundbreaking film, instead...
The Western Ain’t Dead, Damnit!
In the 60s, they said the western was dead, in the 80s, the 90s and the 2000s (is there a proper name for that...
My Love for the Classics
A year back, I was traveling back from Chicago to Delhi, on the Air India flight. It was a long flight, close to 14...
The Treasure of The Sierra Madre
Director John Huston’s 1948 masterpiece The Treasure of The Sierra Madre is a morality tale disguised as an adventure film. It opens in 1920s...
Valerio Zurlini’s Violent Summer
In the Summer of 1943 in the Italian town of Rimini, a group of teens welcome back their friend Carlo Caremoli (Jean Louis Trintignant)....
