With Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch explores demented and supernatural experience of the Western genre. It is the story of a young man’s journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. [ … ]
Category: Film & TV
The Salvation (2014) – The Brutal American West of the 1870s
In the American West of the 1870s, a European settler, Jon Jensen (Mads Mikkelsen), has just welcomed his wife and son to the country when they are kidnapped and murdered. [ … ]
True Grit (2010) – Brooding Gothic Western Style
On the surface it would seem that in remaking the 1969 John Wayne film True Grit, the Coen brothers (Ethan and Joel) have remade a good film into a great [ … ]
The Great Silence – One Of Tarantino’s Big Influences
The Great Silence (Italian: Il grande silenzio), also known by its alternative UK title The Big Silence, is a 1968 revisionist Spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Sergio Corbucci. It is also one of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino’s [ … ]
Westworld – Western Sci-Fi At It’s Best
“Westworld isn’t your typical amusement park. Intended for rich vacationers, the futuristic park allows its visitors to live out their most primal fantasies with the robotic hosts. However, the robotic [ … ]
Bone Tomahawk (2015) – Western Horror Film
“After an outlaw unknowingly leads a band of cannibalistic Troglodytes into the peaceful western town of Bright Hope, the monsters kidnap several settlers, including the wife of a local rancher. [ … ]
Penny Dreadful Season 3 – Werewolf Western
Werewolf Western…? Vampire Western? Witch Western? In Season 3 of HBO’s Penny Dreadful, the action follows wolfman Ethan (Josh Hartnett) home to the States and across the New Mexico territory. [ … ]
Jeremy Renner as Doc Holliday in New Film
Palmstar Media has optioned rights to the two Mary Doria Russell books on legendary gunslinger and gambler Doc Holliday for a movie that will star Jeremy Renner as Doc Holliday. PalmStar’s [ … ]
The Missing (2003) – Apache Brujo Black Magic
When frontier medicine woman and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett) sees her teenage daughter, Lily (Evan Rachel Wood), kidnapped by the Apache brujo Pesh-Chidin (Eric Schweig), she [ … ]
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is a 2007 Dark Western written and directed by Andrew Dominik. Adapted from Ron Hansen’s 1983 novel of the [ … ]