All posts tagged "Western"
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Mark Glass | January 11, 2024
THE NIGHT THEY CAME HOME – Review
THE NIGHT THEY CAME HOME is a western offering that is a pretty good recycling of several classic...
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Cate Marquis | October 20, 2023
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON – Review
In the 1920s, the people of the Osage Nation became the richest people on earth after oil was...
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Jim Batts | November 14, 2021
THE POWER OF THE DOG – Review
Just a few weeks after THE HARDER THEY FALL, Netflix gives us another sprawling Western. Ah, but there...
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Jim Batts | October 20, 2021
THE HARDER THEY FALL (2021) – Review
What say we saddle up and mosey’ down to the ole’ multiplex, pardner’? Or something like that since...
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Cate Marquis | October 1, 2021
OLD HENRY – Review
The classic Western rides again, with Tim Blake Nelson playing a quiet widowed farmer with teen-aged son on...
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Jim Batts | December 23, 2020
NEWS OF THE WORLD – Review
As this endless year of 2020 mercifully nears its last days, does it feel like you’ve been cooped...
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Cate Marquis | November 5, 2020
LET HIM GO – Review
LET HIM GO is a Western set in early ’60s Montana, starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane in...
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Cate Marquis | July 12, 2020
FIRST COW – Review
Kelly Reichardt’s FIRST COW offers a tale of friendship and American dreams, set in a hardscrabble frontier outpost...
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Cate Marquis | November 16, 2018
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS – Review
Joel and Ethan Coen spin not one but six Western tales in their excellent anthology THE BALLAD OF...
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Cate Marquis | May 11, 2018
THE RIDER – Review
Brady Jandreau stars as a rodeo star and horse trainer who faces a life crisis after a serious...
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Cate Marquis | February 9, 2018
THE BALLAD OF LEFTY BROWN – Review
THE BALLAD OF LEFTY BROWN has a classic Western story but with a different twist: this time the...
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Travis Keune | July 26, 2011
Top Ten Tuesday: Crossover Westerns
In many ways, the western is a dead genre, but I like to think of it as the...
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Movie Geeks | March 9, 2011
NOT Available on DVD: KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES
Article by Dana Jung When I was a kid, in between wanting to be Spider-Man and serving aboard...
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Travis Keune | December 21, 2010
Review: TRUE GRIT
TRUE GRIT (2010) is the second film adaption of the book from Charles Portis’ 1968 novel of the...
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Andy Triefenbach | June 18, 2010
Review: JONAH HEX
With games like RED DEAD REDEMPTION out on game consoles, westerns seem to be the new black within...
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Travis Keune | October 27, 2009
Coen Bros’ TRUE GRIT Draws Big Names
Anyone who knows me personally knows that I’m an insatiable uber-fan of the Coen Brothers. They are to...
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Scott | July 24, 2009
Tarantino wants to do a Western, but is it next?
Apparently he didn’t get his fill with the executive producing and having a small role in ‘Sukyaki Western...
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Travis Keune | June 1, 2009
Gotta See… ‘The Good, the Bad and the Weird’
‘The Good, the Bad and the Weird’ is a movie high on my must see list right now....