WATCH NOW My first encounter with Clint Eastwood’s work was not in one of his highly-acclaimed spaghetti westerns, nor the fictional talking mule movie ‘Francis In The Navy.’ It was rather in the 1971 movie ‘The Beguiled,’ which is a convoluted Southern Gothic war drama that unusually crosses the genre boundaries. Directed by Don Siegel, […]
WATCH NOW Who would have imagined that one day Jacques Audiard, a French director known for his slow-burn, humanistic character studies would attempt the period American drama of the Western genre with his English language debut. Far removed from his social realist films ‘Dheepan’ and ‘Rust and Bone’ Audiard’s ‘The Sisters Brothers’ has the same
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WATCH NOW Most films like Dead Man’s Hand are really straight forward in explaining why they are as bad as they are, but on this one, it is perplexing a great deal. Sure, there are 18 producers, continuity problems, choppy editing, poor lighting, and amateurish regional community theater performances but on both sides of the
WATCH NOW Death Wish is perhaps the best-known work of Michael Winner alongside Charles Bronson and to start off with, Chato’s Land has a pretty interesting plot. It follows, at least in my opinion, a flat out insane scene where a man by the name of Pardon Chato happens to sit comfortably in a tavern.
WATCH NOW To live as Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876) must have been a joyless enterprise. He left the only woman he adored, was a victim for every man who wanted to claim his fame with a fast-draw competition, made a fool of himself in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and eventually got shot from behind
WATCH NOW From Hell to the Wild West blends Rene’s two main passions. One is crafting Westerns, or at least Westerns that are genre hybrids, and the other is making films about slasher-style hulking maniacs in masks, here a burlap bag with thick stitches, like in the Playing With Dolls films and Cabal. There is
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WATCH NOW Black Noon starts with a mystery woman who also has a cat witnessing a church burning and crumbling to the ground. I won’t mention who plays the woman because revealing her identity provides too many clues about her story from the get-go, but I am sure you will guess it before you finish
WATCH NOW Brett Bentman is the McDonald’s grillmaster of movie directors and here is why, his work is very clearly quantity over quality. It is not normal for someone to release fourteen movies in the first half of 2024 and for those films to actually have worth, and as it stands, Bentman has one whole
WATCH NOW Buffalo Boys is, in essence, an Indonesian hybrid action movie that consists of two disjointed films a brutal martial arts movie and a shocking reimagined western. Set somewhere in the mid-1860s, ancient Indonesian brothers, Jamar and Suwo, who are portrayed by Ario Bayu and Yoshi Sudarso respectively, come back to Java and seek
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WATCH NOW Red Bovie (Robert Duvall) is a progressively grumpy old man who has been cut off from his son for a considerable time. A developer is forcing him out of the old family ranch in Texas for the construction of “ranchettes” For Red, life seems cynical and hostile. If Duvall were not playing the
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