Several years ago, when I first decided to make the transition from physical books to ebooks, I trolled around Amazon looking for cheap ebooks that looks interesting. And, despite the advice of the old adage, I often find my eye being caught by the covers of books, […]
By and large, American cinema is very safe. Occasionally you can come across a strange piece of outsider cinema or an indie flick which really pushes the boundaries of what works in an American movie, but for the most part we’re a very tame country. And […]
If there’s one issue with this golden age of television we’ve found ourselves living in for the past decade, it’s the fact that there isn’t a whole lot that manages to completely permeate the popular consciousness. Now that every imaginable television network, streaming service, and social media […]
We have two pretty big firsts to discuss today here on this Cinematic Century project. The more important of the two is that we’ll be discussing the first Western here today with one of my all-time favorite Western films in history. Hell, it’s high up there on […]
The Western genre of movies is probably one of my biggest blind-spots when it comes to cinema history. Probably only really beat by musicals. I never really had anyone show them to me at a young age, like the stereotype of dads or grandpa’s showing kids their favorite […]
Over the last few years, I’ve been getting into Westerns. I know I watched a lot of the classic ones with my dad or grandpa back when I was a kid, but for most of my life, Westerns were an antiquated genre that weren’t exactly holding up. But […]
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