Quentin Tarantino’s Movies Ranked: The Definitive Ranking
A top nine, not a top ten. Whew…that was a close one. That almost sucked. Gosh, I didn’t realize how much of…
Tag: Ennio Morricone
Hateful 8: Best Eight Westerns to Stream This Weekend
With the passing of the great Ennio Morricone, whose evocative Spaghetti Western scores will always be a defining ingredient of the genre, it’s an appropriate…
Duck You Sucker! Sergio Leone’s Final & Perhaps Greatest Western
John H. Mallory (James Coburn): Well, the reality of that is… you just liberated a hundred and fifty patriots through sheer courage in the face…
Arrivederci Maestro: 10 Scores to Remember by Ennio Morricone
With the sad news of the passing of the film score composer Ennio Morricone, ten of my favourite pieces. There could be…
Wolfman Jack: a Retrospective of Mike Nichols’ WOLF (1994)
Mike Nichols (The Graduate/Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) was an unlikely candidate to direct a werewolf movie, but his 1994 picture Wolf was by…
Pucker Up! Whistling Our Way Through the Movies
Whistling is an underrated skill, one which, if executed ineptly, can be extremely annoying, but in the hands of an expert warbler can be a…