Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#26 in my ranking of John Ford's filmography. Endings are important, and even in light comedies with adventure undertones, those endings end up helping to shape everything that came before it. I was a bit flustered by the first hour or so of John Ford's Steamboat Round the Bend, finding things to like but frustrated… Continue reading Steamboat Round the Bend
#5 in my ranking of John Ford's filmography. John Ford was very busy through the 30s, releasing twenty-five films from 1930 through 1939. In that bevy of output, I think that The Informer stands above the rest. The best movie of this period in his career, a deeply melancholic character study of a man on… Continue reading The Informer
#23 in my ranking of John Ford's filmography. This might be the earliest example of one actor playing two roles against each other. It's definitely one of the earliest with Edward G. Robinson playing the dual roles of a mild mannered reporter and a vicious gangster, often in the same room and even the same… Continue reading The Whole Town’s Talking
#43 in my ranking of John Ford's filmography. An adaptation of Irvin S. Cobb's comic character of the same name, Judge Priest is a thoroughly Southern and nostalgic look at post-Civil War Kentucky centered around Will Rogers' titular character, based, assumedly, on a man Cobb knew in his youth. Much like Doctor Bull, this movie… Continue reading Judge Priest
Well, that's certainly the least cohesive set of movies that could be bundled together as a franchise I've gone through. Starting in the 60s as an offshoot of the popular, goofy, primetime television series and so far getting through Zack Snyder's mythic approach to comic books including his extended cut of his team up film,… Continue reading The Batman Franchise (Theatrically Released Feature Films): The Definitive Ranking
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