“‘Major Dundee’s Warring Cuts Reflect Sam Peckinpah’s Place in Film History”

A major catastrophe about a major asshole, directed by a major asshole and starring yet another major asshole, given new life on Blu-ray, where we can watch all of these majors collide – in two cuts! Continue reading →

Paste Magazine’s 100 Greatest Westerns Of All Time

Here’s the deal: I worked a really, really, really long time on this list, and so did the people I worked on it with, and you just know by the title what the whole thing is all about. I’m not going to slow walk you through it. Just take this magical link to Paste Magazine to scope … Continue reading →

Review: Casa De Mi Padre, 2012, dir. Matt Piedmont

Casa de mi Padre is remarkably difficult to categorize. On the one hand, it’s eighty minutes of bizarre, absurdist, surrealist humor bent on taking potshots at immeasurably melodramatic telenovelas as well as the works of Sam Peckinpah. On the other, there’s still very little cinema to which it has a direct analogue. Take, for example, Friday’s other … Continue reading →