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Ranking The Mummy Films
With the inevitable Mummy legacy-sequel in the works, I felt it was best to establish what the franchise has produced thus far. You basically have a great first film, a sequel that is essentially a remake and better in many ways (but missing the feeling of “new”), and then a disastrous follow-up years later. Continue reading Ranking The Mummy Films
Ranking the Werner Herzog Fiction Films
Herzog Articles
Ranking the Werner Herzog Documentaries
Ranking the Werner Herzog Fiction Films
Review of Werner Herzog’s The Twilight World
Ranking the Nosferatu Films
Still Need to Watch: Signs of Life, Scream of Stone, Invincible, The Wild Blue Yonder, Salt and Fire
Werner Herzog is one the greatest filmmakers ever. He has made some of the most astounding films of all time. I love (much of) his work dearly.
Ranking the Werner Herzog Documentaries
Herzog Articles
Ranking the Werner Herzog Documentaries
Ranking the Werner Herzog Fiction Films
Review of Werner Herzog’s The Twilight World
Ranking the Nosferatu Films
Still Need to Watch: The Flying Doctors of East Africa, Handicapped Future, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck, La Soufrière, Huie’s Sermon, God’s Angry Man, The Dark Glow of the Mountains, Herdsmen of the Sun, Echoes from a Sombre Empire, Jag Mandir, Bells from the Deep, The Transformation of the World into Music, Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices, Wheel of Time, The White Diamond, Encounters at the End of the World, Into the Abyss, On Death Row, From One Second to the Next, Into the Inferno, Meeting Gorbachev, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Werner Herzog is one of the greatest filmmakers who has ever stepped behind the camera. I am merely at the beginning of my journey of exploring and studying his documentaries so far, but I am going to share my early findings on what I consider to be his best and most essential work.
Ranking the Bradley Cooper Films
In an age where every actor thinks they can be a director, Bradley Cooper is a rare one who has some talent for it. He has got things to say about being an artist and being alive. He has visual and formal ambition. He is – in fact – an artist. He’s not a great director, but he does not need to be. He instead is a director who makes films that are worth watching.
Ranking the Michael Mann Films
Michael Mann is just about as good as it gets. No one is able to take the general cops/robbers premise and make it as beautiful to look at and experience as Mann.
Ranking the 28 Days Later Films
The 28 Days/Weeks/Years Later film series is fairly odd as far as franchises go. The first film was from a clearly an attempt at artistry despite being in a classic genre that COULD just be lowest common denominator genre fodder. They established an Alien-like quality where the films are gonna be different in regards to cast and tone and director with the sequel.
But then the franchise seemingly just died after two films due to rights issues. And then it became oddly hard to legally watch the first film unless you had the DVD? Now, all these years later, Danny Boyle and Alex Garland have a three-film plan with the first two films shot back to back?? In an age where all studies are desperate to mine IP, it was inevitable they would land back at this franchise. But its path to get there has been odd to say the least.
Ranking the Kogonada Films
Kogonada seems like a true artist whose work can be neatly divided between the work he wrote and the work he was hired to direct. You do not need to guess which avenue has made for interesting art. I look forward to following their career in the years to come.
Ranking the Michael Roemer Films
Still Need to Watch: Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family
I had a chance to see Michael Roemer live in 2025, but I could not pull it off and then he died a short while later. That’s gonna be a lifelong regret. What a beautiful filmmaker that deserved to be far more prolific than he ended up being.
There Will Be Movies – Ep. 115: Nickel Boys
We close out another volume of the podcast with a divisive look at the harrowing ‘niche indie movie’/Oscar nominee, Nickel Boys.
We have a spirited debate about the effectiveness of the First Person POV filmmaking and a not-so-spirited look ahead at what we might be podcasting about next.
Continue reading There Will Be Movies – Ep. 115: Nickel Boys
