The Western had been pronounced dead by virtually everyone when actor, producer, and director Kevin Costner brought it roaring back to life with this 1990 hit, a great American epic that triumphed against industry expectations to win seven Oscars including Best Picture. While the film was not re...
The woods where the weird shadows slant; The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery, I’ve bade ’em good-by—but I can’t. There’s a land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers all run God knows where; There are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just ha...
one or several of the others in their gang are working together to abscond with all the gold. Turner’s horror-Western hybrid might offend the purists in both genres, but the film is a powerful example of the Weird Western. Thanks to the work of a strong ensemble cast, including Henry ...
One standout is Liam Neeson. He is one of the best actors that MacFarlane has been able to bring into his fold. The actor, known by many audiences as gruff and serious, has allowed MacFarlane to reframe him as a self-aware comedic utility player. His role of Clinch Leatherwood (great ...
Early on in one of Fallout's many flashbacks to the late 21st century, actor Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) worries about the ending of a Western movie he's shooting. Why would his character, a law-abiding sheriff, choose to shoot an outlaw dead instead of just arresting him?
OK, but there’s one more weird thing… and if you read a lot of YA, you might be able to predict what it is… The Scythes become fully-legal assassins as teenagers. OK, so they can’t rent a car, but they can kill people with samurai swords and flamethrowers?
Boone was famously difficult, and yet the result was worth it so if it cost him a punch in the face it was worth it. I would rather see an actor fight for good material than accept whatever he was handed which also happened with series. A happy set isn’t always a productive one as...
While the action is occasional, it never falls back on overt stylizations like India’s 2018 film Thugs of Hindostan, a part anti-colonialist Western, part Pirates of the Caribbean riff that treats both colonial bloodshed and swashbuckling action with exact same eye. Buffalo Boys does, ...
My friend commented that making the decision to do the retreat was “weirdly wonderful,” that she, too, felt a huge release, “. . . like I’d just gotten a massage. A marvelous lesson in the power of intention. I took an unseemly pleasure in defining my rules—monitoring email OK,...