Tag: western
Opening This Week: LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, ROSEMEAD, JUJUTSU KAISEN: EXECUTION
Plus: 'Under Current (Noi Mok),' '100 Nights of Hero,' 'Frontier Crucible.'
FRONTIER CRUCIBLE: Official Trailer and Key Art For Western Starring Myles Clohessy, Armie Hammer, William H. Macy And Thomas Jane
A former soldier with a tragic past is thrown into an uneasy alliance with three outlaws, a beautiful woman, and her injured husband, to battle the harsh elements and hostiles in a desperate bid for survival in the Arizona of the 1870s.
It's a 4K Western Revival, as SILVERADO and THE QUICK AND THE DEAD Ride Onto UHD
Westerns from Lawrence Kasdan and Sam Raimi are new to 4K UHD steelbook.
SIX DAYS TO DIE Exclusive Clip: You'll Need Wild West Skills for This Apocalypse
A gambler wrongly accused of murder on the run from the law in in the the post apocalypse desert — not a combination of images that one commonly thinks of with Canadian cinema, but it is getting warmer, and we...
Now FASTing: PALE RIDER, Death on a Pale Horse
Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarity, Carrie Snodgrass, Sydney Penny, and Richard Dysart star, now available free (with ads) on Tubi TV.
Now FASTing: Sergio Leone's A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS Made Clint Eastwood a Star
Where to watch: on physical media or a FAST service or a streaming service? And why bother?
EDDINGTON Review: Men Would Rather Destroy Themselves Than Go to Therapy
Eddington, the fourth feature from Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar, Beau is Afraid), moves away somewhat from horror and the uncanny we've come to expect in his films, into a combination of a western and crime thriller that focuses in a very fraught...
Now Streaming: Ari Aster's HEREDITARY, MIDSOMMAR, BEAU IS AFRAID
Where to watch the director's first three, increasingly divisive feature films (which we all love).
3 Clint Eastwood Classics Ride Triumphantly Onto 4K UHD
'The Outlaw Josey Wales,' 'Pale Rider,' and 'Dirty Harry' make a killer debut on 4K UHD!
GUNSLINGERS Review: Come for Nicolas Cage, Stay If You Have 100 Minutes to Spare
Nicolas Cage, Stephen Dorff, and Heather Graham star in writer/director Brian Skiba's Western.
Friday One Sheet: EDDINGTON
Disturbing imagery is carrying much of the load for Ari Aster's latest film, a neo-western called Eddington. This grey-ish design from LA outfit, grandson, is a festival teaser poster for its upcoming Cannes bow. The black buffalo charging off a cliff (the odd...
PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID 4K UHD Review: Sam Peckinpah Unmasked
Sam Peckinpah's got James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, and Bob Dylan's number in a new edition from the Criterion Collection.
Fantasia 2024 Review: TATSUMI, A Gritty Yakuza Street Drama With A Broken Heart
I am happy that these kinds of gritty, but emotionally tragic crime films are still being made. Hiroshi Shôji’s Tatsumi is one of those skuzzy neighborhood dramas, the kind soaked in poverty, spit, blood, and tears. Where the crime feels...
STRANGE WAY OF LIFE Review: Can Love Survive The Years and the Desert
In a small desert town, on the fringes of the American West, where civilization has yet to envelope the people, two men rekindle their passion after years apart. But any blaze is at risk of combusting too quickly, leaving only...
Now Streaming: JEREMIAH JOHNSON, An American Epic
Robert Redford stars in Sydney Pollack's epic adventure, originally released in 1972, and now streaming on Max.
4K Review: Criterion Harnesses THE POWER OF THE DOG For a Stunning Release
Jane Campion's revisionist Netflix Western stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Jesse Plemons.
Friday One Sheet: 1923
The star-system is not quite dead. Today we are stepping out of the usual 'movie poster' space, albeit looking below, you would never know it. 1923 is prequel series to long-running (and highly franchise-able, apparently) neo-western Yellowstone. Helen Mirren and...
Review: DEAD FOR A DOLLAR, Character Actor Goodness in a B-Western Package
In his 1962 essay, "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art," critic Manny Farber comes firmly down on the side of filmmakers and actors who are completely at odds with the zeitgeist or trends, and nibble away at the edges of...
Toronto 2022 Review: SISU, Really Really Really Loves Blowing Up Nazis
With its wide-screen sky and endlessly empty tundra, Lapland makes a surprisingly able analogue for the American West. Finnish director Jalmari Helander is not exactly interested in making Once Upon in Time in Lapland here, but he certainly enjoys the...
Blu-ray Review: BUCK AND THE PREACHER Blasts Away Western Cobwebs
Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte star in Poitier's directorial debut, a rambunctious Western that aims to correct the U.S. historical record. From The Criterion Collection.
