The Ongoing Cinematic Education of Steven Carlson

Reports of my death, it seems, have been greatly exaggerated. This site's still going away... but I'm not. Mainly because I realized...

Nobody's going to read this, most likely, but it needs to be said anyway. Long time coming, at any rate. So. The other day (as in, last ...

Week of September 8th: The Bounty Man (1972): Bland TV-movie Western starring Clint Walker as a bounty hunter who goes to bring in John Eri...

Week of September 1: Boarding Gate (2008): Another study of alienation disguised as a genre flick from Olivier Assayas, this could be seen ...

And my burgeoning empire of not-for-pay criticism rolls on... Hey, didja know that the Encyclopedia Britannica has a blog? I didn't. But...

Week of August 25th: Any Gun Can Play (1967): From what I've seen, spaghetti Westerns seem to hit the same blind spot I have for Japane...

Week of August 18th: Death Race 2000 (1975): Darkly funny rotgut satire masquerading as just another Corman-branded drive-in smash-em-up. T...