Western

Sweet Country, by Indigenous Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton, is a movie with brutality at its heart. Set in 1929, it tells the story of Sam, an Aboriginal stockman, forced to kill in self-defense a violent white landowner. Much…

A little under two years ago, I opened my review of Alexander Innaruto’s The Revenant by comparing the films breath-taking opening sequence to the first major passage of violence in Cormac McCarthy novel Blood Meridian. This was a mistake.…

Classical music, art and cinema all have their place and are often given the respect they are due. So it is with the Western. Some of America's greatest fables and folktales exist in the Western genre. From the gunfight at the OK Corral to…

“It’s a hell of a thing killing a man. You take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.” - Unforgiven, 1992 Unforgiven stormed the Oscars in 1992, winning Clint Eastwood his first statuettes for Best Picture and Best Director and…

Bone Tomahawk; a simple story well executed. The film combines gripping direction, a sparse and grounded use of violence, strong characters, and brilliant performances to concoct its own distinct style of slow boiled western horror.…

Directed by Tommy Lee Jones Starring Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter and Grace Gummer. There’s a lot of truth in the saying “what’s seldom is wonderful.” The last 25 years have given us some great westerns,…