Posts Tagged ‘Sergio Leone’
Film Review – Drug War
Some of my favorite movies are the ones that start with the story already in progress. Michael Mann’s 2006 thriller Miami Vice is one of the first that comes to mind. The movie opens as agents Crockett and Tubbs are already deep in the middle…
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Top 10 of 2012 – Ed’s Picks
2012 was a terrific year at the movies. 2010 and 2011 both felt a little underwhelming at the time. There was some good work, to be sure, but the amount of work that felt new or exciting was less and less. However, this last year…
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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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An Appreciation – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
No other genre evokes a sense of place better than the western. You have vast rolling hills, expansive barren deserts, horses, hats and pistols, and sleepy towns where sheriffs and robbers shoot it out to the death. It’s a world long since passed, where those…
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Top 5 – Westerns
Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Ben and Ed share their top 5 westerns. This segment is also available on Stitcher, iTunes, and Zune. The audio version can be downloaded directly from here.
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Top 5 – Films They Should Have Seen (Part II)
Another MacGuffin Film Podcast Top 5′s segment. This time, Brandi and Allen share their thoughts after watching the films they assigned each other in “Top 5 Films They Should Have Seen.” If you need a refresher, you can watch the Top 5 – Films They…
READ MOREAction Junkie: Hard Boiled
John Woo’s 1992 Hong Kong film Hard Boiled is to action films what Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West was to westerns. Leone’s epic was itself an ode to the western genre, from its plot to its locations to its camera placements.…
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