Kentucky Pride

#76 in my ranking of John Ford's filmography. I'm not sure where the idea of telling this story from the perspective of the horse came from, but I'm not entirely sure it was in the plan from the inception. Kentucky Pride tells the story of the life of a female racehorse from her birth through…

Prince of Darkness

#12 in my ranking of John Carpenter's films. John Carpenter was going to a dark place. It's not really the subject matter, though. While Prince of Darkness is a bit more apocalyptic than some of his other offerings, it's obvious that it was the commercial failure of Big Trouble in Little China that did something…

Lightnin’

#55 in my ranking of John Ford's filmography. A mixture of comedy and drama, John Ford's 1924 Lightnin' is based on a play by Winchell Smith about a perennial louse of an older man and the efforts he has to go through to save his wife and home from a pair of conmen. It's a…

The Colossus of Rhodes

#7 in my ranking of Sergio Leone's films. I think it's obvious why Sergio Leone's first credited feature directing credit gets ignored by most people. It contains none of his stylistic flourishes that he became known for, is removed from the Italianized version of America he liked to set his films in, and feels wildly…

Starman

#5 in my ranking of John Carpenter's films. In order to further prove himself to Hollywood, Carpenter took on this project, a script that had been in consideration for production by Columbia at the same time that Spielberg made E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, as an effort to prove that he could work outside of horror. The…