You clearly drive past some sort of small tree. I propose we rename it the Onearbor Plain.
Jeremy Saulnier's new thriller Rebel Ridge is streaming on Netflix. It's rock-solid stuff. fictionmachine.com/2024/09/27/r...
A retired marine travels to the small town of Shelby Springs to bail his nephew out of police custody on a minor drugs infringement. When police officers confiscate his bail money upon entering the…
I honestly find the discourse much more reasonable here than on Twitter.
Probably not, but he is - personality aside - a very accomplished director. Braveheart transformed how Hollywood presented medieval warfare.
That said... I've always felt there's an amazing film to be made out of a post-Passion apostle trying to proselytize "the word". He knows what he saw, but everyone else has to take his word for it that miracles are real, and he's still processing everything that happen. Survivor guilt, etc.
Mel Gibson: "I don't which one I'm directing first: Lethal Weapon 5 or Passion of the Christ 2." Everyone: "There's no rush."
The latest FictionMachine essay is online, on Kevin Reynolds' 1991 swashbuckler Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Follow the link for the story of how it was made, the rivals ruined in its wake, the turbulent last-minute shoot, and that accent.
It is 1908. Percy Stow, seen by many as one of the founders of British cinema, directs his latest short film: Robin Hood and his Merry Men. It is the very first screen adaptation of the Robin Hood leg...
The more 1955 westerns I watch, the more they seem to follow into neat categories. Today I take a look at Ten Wanted Men, a solid example of what I'm calling a 'range war western'.
Warring cattle ranchers provide the set-up for H. Bruce Humberstone's Ten Wanted Men, a solid but somewhat unexceptional 1955 western. It is a showcase for genre stalwart Randolph Scott, but in a year...