Blu-ray Review: Outland – “Part pulpy detective story and part western”
Written and directed by Peter Hyams (TimeCop), the 1981 Sean Connery starring sci-fi Outland has just been released on Blu-Ray as part of...
Read MoreHow the West continues to be Won
Just like the hard-bitten anti-heroes they depict, Wild West movies seems to never die, despite the odds being stacked against them at...
Read MoreVideo Essay – A Fistful of Dollars and Yojimbo: A Comparative Feature
Jan-Michael Marshall put together this visual comparison between Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (1961) and Sergio Leone’s A Fistful...
Read MoreVideo Essay: The Hateful Thing
It’s well known that Quentin Tarantino had John Carpenter’s The Thing in mind when making The Hateful Eight. The intention of...
Read MoreCool Animated Short: Borrowed Time
A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories...
Read MoreReview: The Magnificent Seven – “Like The Avengers wearing Stetsons”
Director Antoine Fuqua (The Replacement Killers) reunites with his Training Day stars, Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke, for a remake of...
Read MoreReview: The Magnificent Seven – “Fun, adventurous and action-packed”
Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua make a great team. We saw it in Training Day and in The Equalizer. For this latest outing for the...
Read MoreBlu-ray Review: Jane Got A Gun
Jane Got A Gun is a relatively simple western, but its title requires contemplation. I mulled it over on the train home while eating some...
Read MoreJohn Sayles to direct Franco Nero in a new Django movie
This is incredible news. For those of you who may not know, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained featured the original Django in the...
Read MoreReview: The Timber
The Timber so wants to be something more, something important, something classic. The seeds are there, but it never reaches the heights it...
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