DVD Review: THE KEEPING ROOM – A tense, gritty, anti-GONE WITH THE WIND
Incredibly well-acted, harrowing The Keeping Room is part-home invasion thriller, part-period piece and part-feminist Western.
Some have strayed in this trailer for the Western-set thriller BRIMSTONE
Brimstone is the upcoming thriller set in the Wild West from Dutch writer/director Martin Koolhoven, and starring Dakota Fanning and Guy Pearce, that sees a young woman’s quiet life in a small town turned upside down after a vengeful preacher arrives. The official plot synopsis is as follows: Liz [Dakota Fanning] has a quiet country life on a farm with …
See Donald and Kiefer Sutherland on-screen together in this trailer for R-rated Western FORSAKEN
Genres might fall out of favour, but they never really die. They just ride off into the sunset, maybe to return one day (“Shane! Come back!”) – and so it is with the humble Western. Forsaken is the upcoming R-rated Western redemption tale starring Kiefer and Donald Sutherland. It also marks the first time the father-son duo will appear on-screen …
Cinophile: LAST MAN STANDING
[column size=one_half position=first ] From samurai to cowboys to prohibition gangsters – the double-cross never gets old. Last Updated: September 21, 2015
The MAGNIFICENT SEVEN gets big money behind it
The remake of The Magnificent Seven is ready to go and has picked up some big backers. Sony and MGM have agreed to jointly bankroll the remake of one of the most famous Westerns in history. Last Updated: March 13, 2015
Will Denzel Washington Be One Of THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN?
The Western genre remains an oddity. It has fallen a little from grace since its heyday during the golden age of movies. Then again, back then it was all about Great White Men and the Savage Indians disgruntled over the new occupying settlers Last Updated: June 10, 2014
Tarantino to head back to the West!
There was a lot of debate around Quentin Tarantino’s previous film, the ultra-violent Western Django Unchained. While reviews were mixed (well, mixed as in “That was a masterpiece” or “That was cool”), it was mostly very well received by fans and I, for one, really enjoyed it. And now the director is planning on doing some gunslinging again. Last Updated: November …
We review The Lone Ranger – A schizoid, overlong reboot that cannot sustain the fun
On paper, The Lone Ranger sounds like a sure thing. For all intents and purposes the character is a Wild West Batman (who’s not Zorro), a masked hero fighting for justice outside a compromised legal system. Although older generations will remember the character more fondly than younger audiences, the Lone Ranger is an American Pop Culture icon. And he’s being …
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