The second in John Ford’s Cavalry trilogy is a curiosity for sure; where FORT APACHE is a serious western drama recounting a real-life event in our history, YELLOW RIBBON feels like a side-story goof that the cast and crew decided to put together for fun between takes or after they wrapped because they had some money left over from the previous film….like BLUE IN THE FACE was to Wayne Wang’s SMOKE. 
John Wayne is actually “ACT-ING” as opposed to “RE-ACTING”…

Annual screening never disappoints. 
Bill Butler’s wide lens-heavy cinematography (which looks particularly vivid on an LG OLED screen utilizing the “Filmmaker mode” to enhance the experience) leans into filling the frame with so much information in both the foreground (usually reserved for interesting faces) and background, allowing Young Steven to keep the camera evolving in the scene with less need for coverage (likely much to the producer’s ire). 
Every time I watch one of the best movies ever made I…

The Years of Lead – Book Out Now!

"All things are good when taken to excess."

Before even approaching the content of Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, I feel like it's important to address its legacy. Salò is understandably not a film that most people seek out, but the people who do usually come from two camps: those seeking European art film, and those seeking extreme horror film. I'm a bit of both: while I'm not exactly a…

Each time I go back to Lynch’s Dune I keep expecting it to be something that it isn’t. That’s how strong the (mostly negative) discourse around it has been and continues to be. I keep expecting a camp 80s sci-fi in the vein of Flash Gordon and The Apple (or maybe Barbarella before them), but what Dune actually is is a very sincere adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic novel, with all the epic scope you would expect of a tentpole…

The outlier of the franchise, 1985's A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy's Revenge, makes for a darker and grittier companion piece to the original. Despite it breaking every Freddy Krueger rule in the book, it's still fun and features one of the best practical effect gags in horror history (iykyk). As Jesse (Mark Patton) struggles with himself, he must face his fears head-on if he has any chance of survival. Turning on LG OLED's filmmaker mode brings even more detail…