Western

Much is revealed about How the West Was Won in the title alone. “The West” about which we are concerned is less a place than a way of thinking. With locations in Utah and California, we are geographically in recognisable terrain. What is…

Prisoners of the Ghostland represents a perfect artistic marriage: the gonzo Japanese auteur Sion Sono (Suicide Club, Love Exposure, Tag) and “the California Klaus Kinski", Nicolas Cage. While Sono's English language debut may not fulfill…

Red Dead Redemption was the blueprint. Other games like Assassin's Creed were trying to do similar things but only Red Dead Redemption and its sequel would perfect the flawed desire for endless freedom in an open, hostile game world. It was…

Few arthouse films this year are as likely to appeal to an Irish audience than The Nightingale, writer-director Jennifer Kent's follow up to her breakout debut The Babadook from 2014. After all the Aussie filmmaker's latest is essentially…

To say the Western is a dying genre would be wrong but it's nowhere near as healthy as it once was. Still, as long as the Coen Brothers are making movies it will never really die. Out this day last year, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs set…

"Seeing that reminds me of my good friend Paul and the sadness I feel at his loss." - Robert Redford Fifty years has passed since George Roy Hill's (The World According to Garp) multi-award winning Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The…

This article contains spoilers for Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2. I didn't go into Red Dead Redemption expecting John Marston to die in a hail of bullets. I didn't expect his stern but doting wife Abigail to die of…

The tragedy and comedy ever-present in the work of the Coen Brothers has never been closer than in their Westerns. From Miller’s Crossing to No Country for Old Men to their unnecessary but textured remake of True Grit. Now with their…

The holy love child of the Coen brothers and Sergio Leone, Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts is the type of fresh inventive genre take that winds up an art-house classic. With the sweltering-hot countryside of modern day Indonesia…

In spite of it's title, Valeska Grisebach's Western takes place in Bulgaria; an area that was once a frontier of sorts for Germany during a brief and particularly dark moment in history. The German workers sent to build a power plant in the…