In this episode, Dr. Fleming critiques the Denis Villeneuve-directed, Taylor Sheridan-written film Sicario, which he characterizes as a comic book take on some of the themes of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. Homework for the next episode: Wind River.
Dr. Fleming comments on the (thankfully) only Tom Cruise film in our series, though his thoughts on it as a whole may surprise you. Homework for the next episode in the series is Sicario.
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In our latest in the 1990-present day segment of this series, Dr. Fleming gives his take on the iconic 1993 Tombstone, very popular among Gen-X men. Homework for the next episode is The Last Samurai.
In this first episode of the final era in our Westerns series (1990-present) we will look at Dances with Wolves. Does Dances represent a breakthrough in Western film or just the complete breakdown of the American mind? Homework for next meeting: Last of the Mohicans.
When will the second best Congress the world can buy follow the lead of Rand Paul and Donald Trump who advocate a foreign policy based on foreign interest? When will Americans realize that Hamas’ leaders may be evil but they are not clueless.? The argument concludes with a few modest proposals for peace.
In this first part, Dr. Fleming and Rex dissect the dishonest and degrading rhetoric of the American debate on Hamas’s terrorist attack.
Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss a movie in an entirely different mode from the Man with No Name Trilogy and even High Plains Drifter and beyond: the sympathetic-to-the-Confederacy film The Outlaw Josey Wales.
I visited war-torn Syria in 2016. A country where in some regions there are no longer 3/4 young men between the ages of 18-45 thanks to the conflict. What makes it even worse is that this conflict was planned in advance. The opposition has been armed and trained by the US and its allies since 2006. “Democratic freedom fighters” who would bring Syria into the Western liberal world, so was the propaganda that was fueled here at the beginning of the Arab Spring. For me, this was also a far from my bed show at the beginning. Until those democratic...
In this episode Stephen and Dr Fleming agree to disagree on the good, the bad, and the ugly in perhaps Leone’s most celebrated film.
