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Southwest. The midst of the Civil War. Three men band an uneasy partnership to find 200,000 in gold buried in a cemetery amongst the bloodshed of America’s most deadly war. This isn’t the glamorized hollywood western. It’s a brutal, gritty, and emotional western that has had audiences and critics both raving in praise about forContinue reading “The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly”

The way I was introduced to classic films was through the Universal Classic Monsters all of which had become a source of inspiration to my storytelling. One especially would be one of the first films I ever bought. Creature From The Black Lagoon on paper should be another fifties horror film. But, what it becameContinue reading “Creature From The Black Lagoon”

It isn’t easy being holed up in American research facility, in the harsh winter climate of the Antarctic. Doesn’t make it any easier when the people who’re your with might not even be human. Here, we have the 1982 classic, The Thing. This coldly ruthless film preys on the fear of trust with one another.Continue reading “The Thing”

The early hours of the Los Angeles streets are silent, but one car is speeding through the empty streets. The thick fog hangs low over the road, where the only illumination is the line of street lamps that stretch for eternity. We see a tall shadow emerge from the car. His hat low, and hisContinue reading “Double Indemnity”

“We were somewhere outside of Barstow, along the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold…” Then passes a great red shark of a car, a red chevy pontiac blazing across the sun soaked stretch of road branching California and Nevada. There, we find two men hopped up on whatever assorted drugContinue reading “Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas”

This is pure genius! Released in 1969 to a polarized public, The Wild Bunch has garnered itself one of the most controversial films of all time, and it’s well worthy of that title. Extremely violent, nudity, and sexual references combined while following a group of savages makes it brutal, a kind of film that wasContinue reading “The Wild Bunch”

I’m sorry Tyler, I have to talk about it. In these times our generation has come to know the exploitation of society in a whole new way. However films have been known to deconstruct our modern lives, such as Taxi Driver and the one where the first two rules are not even to mention it.Continue reading “Fight Club”

Just think for a moment. You’re at the end of your years as a middle schooler, and you’ve just discovered films such as Goodfellas, Scarface, and A Clockwork Orange. You brag to others that you’ve seen these cinematic marvels in violence and dark humor. Then a substitute teacher comes along, and begins to talk toContinue reading “Taxi Driver”

The horror of what you don’t see is what always seems to get us. Whatever may lurk in the obscured shadows, are natural instinct is to fear it. Alien achieves it in great lengths, by opening the film with staring into the ever darkening abyss that is space. We pan across the empty black poolContinue reading “Alien”