The blog of Logan Tyler Smith

This is the segment where I talk about movies pre-2015 that may have escaped the public consciousness in recent years. I'm Logan Tyler Smith, and this is In Case You Missed It. In “Django Unchained”, a slave in the Antebellum South named Django is freed by a german bounty hunter in order to find a bounty. Once the bounty is found, Django and the bounty hunter team up to free Django’s wife from a sadistic plantation owner. This, however, will prove a more difficult task than initially expected. Django is one of those rare director-driven films that makes it to the mainstream. Written and directed by fan-favorite director Quentin Tarantino, this movie works on many levels. Some of the ways the film works include having witty dialogue, powerful performances, and a solid cast. Despite the film’s rocky subject matter and place in history, the film also makes you think in a matter-of-fact way about slavery’s role in America’s past. Some of the ways the slaves are treated throughou...

My name is Logan Tyler Smith, and in this series of LoganLand Prime I will analyze movies that are newer or more contemporary in the public consciousness. Welcome to the New Releases series. In “John Wick Chapter 3 - Parabellum”, notorious hitman and dog lover John Wick has reached his low point. Excommunicated from the “High Table” (a prestigious organized crime organization) for events of the previous film, John must use every trick in his arsenal to avoid ending up roadkill at the hands of seemingly every assassin in the world. John Wick is one of those franchises that should not be as good as it is given it’s concept on paper. A former hitman avenging the death of dog is certainly a hard premise to swallow. John Wick repeatedly steps up the franchises dense crime mythology and mixes it with the series’ use of powerful acting and sometimes impossibly effective fight choreography. This film in particular is truly a piece of action cinema meant for the big screen. If you’re...