Well, apparently I’m a chump. Finally decided to check out Horizon Chapter 1 in theaters since it might be hitting streaming soon and I bet it’ll be a $20 rental. So I used my AMC Premier thingy to plant myself … Continue reading
Westerns are not exactly my favorite genre so maybe my skepticism affected how I thought about this flick. But any movie in any genre as plodding and monotonous and unmoored from a conventional understanding of story progression would be a … Continue reading
The Old Way is an overly-talky Western stocked with stereotypes and clichés instead of characters. Nicolas Cage plays a retired killer settled down with a family. When bandits murder his wife, he has to come out of retirement, towing his … Continue reading
RIPD 2 is what you get when you complain about Ryan Reynolds doing the same old schtick in all his movies and then they release an unexpected and unwanted sequel to one of his most forgettable movies that really needed … Continue reading
OK, OK… Fine. I’ll watch The Power of the Dog. It seems everyone and his father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate is watching and rating it highly, so there must be something there. I know it’s a Jane Campion Western… … Continue reading
The Harder They Fall is a new Western airing on Netflix this past week. Now, Westerns are not my favorite film genre… I certainly like some and will watch most new ones but something about the genre doesn’t click with … Continue reading
Cry Macho stars Clint Eastwood as an aged cowboy and former rodeo star who is asked by a friend to go to Mexico and retrieve his estranged son. Eastwood does this out of a sense of obligation but eventually out … Continue reading
Oddly enough, I’ve never seen the original Spirit (Stallion of the Cimarron) ) so it’s a little perplexing I bothered tromping to the cinemas to watch this kid’s film remake? Sequel? But I have an AMC Stubs card burning a … Continue reading
News of the World seems like an unlikely film to me… what exactly does a Tom Hanks western even look like? Or a western about traveling the West and reading the news to townsfolk? I think what the film is … Continue reading
I blind watched a newish digital rental called Bacurau, a Brazilian film of some indeterminate genre. I’d heard it talked about and it’s been given good reviews. So I gave it a shot, intrigued by the mystery, and spent more … Continue reading