Monday, April 22 2013
Django May Be Unchained, But America Is Never Unshackled from Its Racist Past
Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained is at its strongest when it problematizes America's racist past.The destruction of Candyland not only vindicates Django’s revenge-fuelled quest, but also implies that slavery itself has been wiped off the face of the earth.
Tuesday, August 9 2011
Quentin Tarantino’s Cinematic Reality
Quentin Tarantino is reliving his childhood cinema experiences, reinterpreting fractured moments of memory. Going to the movies is about an escape from our world, a mirror world at once familiar yet different.
Tuesday, June 22 2010
The Plots of Streets of Laredo and Dead Man’s Walk Are Prone to Wandering Off Into the Frontier
If you are already a fan of Lonesome Dove, then you will probably enjoy Streets of Laredo and Dead Man’s Walk.
Tuesday, June 15 2010
‘American Bandits’ Ain’t No ‘Treasure of Sierra Madre’
Fred Olen Ray saw The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and was inspired to make his own James-based film. The aforementioned is a great movie, but alas, American Bandits is not.
Wednesday, September 23 2009
The Frontier Doctor’s Fancy ‘Queen of the Cimarron’
Frontier Doctor's church-prescribing gumdrop-toting hero comes face to face with the unthinkable: a tough-talkin' hard-done bad-girl with money on her mind (gulp).
Wednesday, December 17 2008
Western
Though not a “political film”, it’s tough to argue against some level of socio-political implication of two multi-ethnic foreigners traipsing around idyllic western France, looking for stability.
