Tag: Western
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East of Wall: Finds a Tender Pulse in Hard Country
East of Wall follows a horse trainer fighting to keep her ranch alive while guiding a group of troubled teenagers toward steadier ground. Tabatha Zimiga’s luminous performance anchors a story of grief, responsibility, and the fragile beauty of chosen family.
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The Unholy Trinity: Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson, and Brandon Lessard forge a brutal, bruised Western in Richard Gray’s The Unholy Trinity—flawed, but fiercely alive.
Pierce Brosnan and Samuel L. Jackson lead a brutal, morally tangled Western in The Unholy Trinity. My review explores how Richard Gray’s frontier tale wrestles with legacy, betrayal, and survival.
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Eddington: A Fever Dream in a Dusty Hat
Ari Aster’s Eddington begins as a mirage pulled from quarantine-era America, where every town feels frayed at the edges and grief floats just above the soil. Joaquin Phoenix, as Sheriff Joe Cross, is a cracked monument holding a badge that no longer commands reverence. His campaign for mayor is not a journey but a wound…
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Rust: A Reckoning in the Dust
The wind howled low across the prairie, stirring up the dust that had long settled over forgotten trails and broken promises. *Rust* rides into town with the weight of history pressing against its saddle, a Western that carries more than just the dust of the frontier—it carries the specter of tragedy, the kind that lingers…
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The Thicket: A Gritty Western with Heart and Soul
MOVIE INFO: When fierce bounty hunter Reginald Jones (Peter Dinklage) is recruited by a desperate man to track down a ruthless killer known only as Cutthroat Bill (Juliette Lewis), he rallies a band of unlikely heroes including a grave-digging ex-slave and a street-smart woman-for-hire. Together they embark on a perilous quest to track down Cutthroat…
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Killers of the Flower: Scorsese Stays on the Reservation
Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: Based on David Grann’s broadly lauded best-selling book, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror Review: Killers of the Flower…
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“The Rider”: The First Great Western of Our Time
The Rider is a heartbreaking portrayal of those who can and cannot give up, of those living broken lives with broken dreams and broken hopes.
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“The Equalizer 2” Is Good Enough Work for Now
How do you get an actor (Denzel Washington) and a director (Antoine Fuqua) both known for their sequel aversion to do a sequel like The Equalizer 2? Convince them your doing a remake and tell them that it is a modern day western, even though only the final shootout is horse opera resonant— and it…
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“Damsel” Isn’t in Distress
Damsel is probably the best of a trio of feminist Westerns to grace the big and and small screen this year.
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“Woman Walks Ahead” Tries to Revise a Western Past for an Audience Maybe Not Ready for its Future
By foregrounding the true story of Caroline Weldon (Jessica Chastain) an activist and actual portraitist of Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes), the director (Susanna White, an HBO veteran) and screenwriter (Steven Knight, Allied) insert artsiness in an attempt to elevate Woman Walks Ahead beyond its Western cliches.