Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series rolls on with a look at the 1950s Western TV shows that Allan and everyone else watched constantly, with special shine given to The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, and Davy Crockett. Allan also examines where the shows were shot (Chatsworth), the toy gun…
Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series returns with a vengeance, this time to take stock of that pop culture-altering phenom known as television! Today, it should really be called The First Reel. Allan has been thinking about when his obsession with film and TV first shaped his life. If…
Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush’s The Last Reel video essay series continues with its first installment of a TWO-PARTER about the great Questlove. Today’s episode includes Allan’s TFH commentary for Summer of Soul, Questlove’s band The Roots performing, Adele jamming with The Roots in The Tonight Show‘s Toy Instrument Orchestra, and part of the…
This week’s The Last Reel examines the many forms cinematic femme fatales can take, and why we still love them even though they’re so bad for us. Peggy Cummings, Melanie Griffith, Taylour Paige and Riley Keough number among Allan’s case studies today.
This week’s The Last Reel looks back at the otherworldly power of 60s rock and roll bands and how the media—films, videos, and concerts—helped shape their image.
“What is this Last Reel?” Every new show needs an Origin Story. This one starts in March of 1974, when Fearless Leader Joe Dante and I met in Roger Corman’s editing rooms. Two film Fanatics quite naturally started talking movies, and we still are today. Movies, movies, movies, from 16mm projected on bedsheets, to our own…