Tag: Western

Extreme Prejudice (1987) – Review

Walter Hill’s desire to make almost everything he’s ever directed feel like an impossibly gritty western is well documented, but with his dusty, bullet casing

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High Plains Drifter (1973) – Review

One of the most indelible images of the western is the sight of Clint Eastwood silently trotting into town while the simple townsfolk gawp at

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Open Range (2003) – Review

There was a time there when Kevin Costner’s stabs at long, drawn-out epics were simply not doing it for the cinema going public. After he

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Top 5 Sam Raimi-est Sam Raimi Moments NOT From The Evil Dead Trilogy

I know there’s some out there who don’t want to hear it, but there’s more to Sam Raimi than the deranged pleasures of the Evil

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Blackthorn (2011) – Review

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid may be one of the most charismatic westerns – nay, films – ever made which is cemented even further

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Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969) – Review

In a year that saw that release of True Grit and The Wild Bunch, you’d have to be something special to stand out between these

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Django Unchained (2012) – Review

The director himself may argue the point, but after the non-performance of Grindhouse in 2007, it certainly seemed like Quentin Tarantino took some time to

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Tremors 4: The Legend Begins (2004) – Review

As the direct to DVD sequels to Tremors rumble ever onward, it’s good to know that even someone as jaded as I can be surprised

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The Wild Bunch (1969) – Review

It begins with a spoiler from a scorpion…As William Holden and his men ride into town with a grim task in mind, he passes some

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3:10 To Yuma (2007) – Review

Western remakes aren’t exactly new – hell, Howard Hawks himself went out and remade Rio Bravo twice in the form of El Dorado and Rio

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Wild Wild West (1999) – Review

Staggering into the infamously stacked blockbuster summer of 1999 like a washed up cowpoke with more whiskey in its body than blood came Wild Wild

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The Searchers (1956) – Review

In the harsh, dusty lands of the western, where men and women endure a harsh existence and America was still enduring awkward growing pains; one

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True Grit (1969) – Review

John Wayne accumulated as many iconic roles in his legendary career as anyone else I can recall – which is doubly impressive when you consider

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The Harder They Fall (2021) – Review

The predominantly black western isn’t exactly a kind of movie that’s blossomed over the years and if we’re being technical, we can’t even fully count

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The Sons Of Katie Elder (1965) – Review

It seems that as long as you put a six shooter in his belt, an unforgettable line of tough guy wisdom in his mouth and

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El Dorado (1966) – Review

Howard Hawks was a legendary director and producer, but perhaps his most famous works exist in that of the most American of genres – the

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) – Review

If I’m being honest, when choosing to settle down with a good old western, I usually choose to pick the more stylised, epic works of

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The Magnificent Seven (2016) – Review

Critics weren’t overly kind to “Mag 7”, the remake of A Bug’s Life which was the remake of Battle Beyond The Stars which was the

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Young Guns II (1990) – Review

Back in 1988, a clutch of Hollywood’s most fanciable males were rounded up into a group and appeared in Young Guns, a scrappy, but surprisingly

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Young Guns (1988) – Review

The 80’s seemed to be somewhat of a barren time for the western as audiences flocked to a rather different type of all-American hero in

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