Posts Tagged ‘Sam Peckinpah’
SIFF Film Review – Carnage Park
I like gore. I really, really like it. In my opinion, most movies would be better with a little eyeball popping or face stabbing. Shooting is okay as long as there is lots of blood spurts, and, thankfully, I got some in Mickey Keating’s new…
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An Appreciation – The Wild Bunch
“Let’s go.” – Pike Bishop Two simple words, but to the men of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969), it means so much more. To them, it means taking a stand, helping one of their own in desperate need. And, most importantly, it means that…
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Episode 183 – Outlaw Films
In honor of the release of Lawless, Spencer and Greg discuss outlaw films.
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SXSW Film Review – Casa de mi Padre
It is not often you get to see true creativity coming out of Hollywood. Very few people have enough leverage to be able to do whatever they want regardless of how outrageous the idea is. Following his success in film and the massive success of his internet…
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Action Junkie – Trouble Man, and the trouble with men.
“His friends call him Mr. T. His enemies call for mercy!” In the summer of 1971, the seminal action film Shaft smoothed its way onto the silver screen and exploded at the box office. Made for a budget of one and a quarter million dollars,…
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Action Junkie: Street Law and an Intro to the World of Italian Action Cinema
If we are to look at the history of the action film, then the progression of the genre is one that began with the classic American Westerns directed by the likes of John Ford and Howard Hawkes. Films like The Searchers, Stagecoach, and Rio Bravo…
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