A MATRIX OF CONNECTIONS For a long time, I avoided watching The Thirteenth Floor (above) due to the name Roland Emmerich in the credits. Emmerich was responsible in one way or another for such turkeys as the American Godzilla remake and 10,000 B.C.  However, prompted by Bright Lights After Dark commenter, Hal O’Brien, I finally screened the film ... read more »

STAGECOACH (1939) directed by John Ford from a screenplay by Dudley Nichols is generally considered to be the first adult Western - adult in the sense that it took a set of archetypes who were familiar to audiences from Westerns of the past (the dancehall girl/prostitute, the Southern gentleman gambler, the drunken doctor, the young outlaw, the girl ... read more »