While the Western is not a genre one normally associates with apocalyptic scenarios, the fact that Westerns often harbor religious and Biblical subtexts and are loaded with gunfighter-as-Christ figure imagery [ … ]
Category: Film & TV
Rise – Documenting Indigenous Activists
Rise is a Canadian documentary television series, which aired on Viceland and APTN in 2017. Directed by Michelle Latimer and hosted by Sarain Fox and Gitz Crazyboy, the eight-episode series profiles various indigenous activists engaged in resistance against oppression. Several episodes of the series [ … ]
Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson in Scorsese’s “Killers Of The Flower Moon”
Four new actors join the already-stacked cast of Martin Scorsese’s upcoming crime drama, Killers Of The Flower Moon. Two of the new cast members are actors, while the others are [ … ]
Chopper Franklin To Score Gothic Western Cartoon Series
The Heathen Apostles’ Chopper Franklin has been hired to compose music for the Gothic Western cartoon series The Goodbye Family. The Goodbye Family is the creation of Lorin Morgan-Richards, who has [ … ]
Bravestarr – Science Fiction Western Animation
BraveStarr is an American space western series in the science fiction western animation genre. It is set in the 23rd century on a multi-cultural desert planet called New Texas. On [ … ]
Mel Gibson’s The Wild Bunch Remake for 2022
Sam Peckinpah’s ultra-violent 1969 western epic The Wild Bunch is the latest movie classic to be given the remake treatment by Hollywood. The Passion of the Christ and Hacksaw Ridge’s [ … ]
The Son (2017) – Gothic Texas Epic
The Son, from writers/producers Philipp Meyer, Lee Shipman and Brian McGreevy and producer Michael Connolly, is a multi-generational gothic Texas epic telling of the story of America’s birth as a [ … ]
Unforgiven (1992) – Dark, Grim Western
Unforgiven is a 1992 American revisionist grim Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood and written by David Peoples. The film portrays William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer [ … ]
Glenn Danzig Vampire Western Wrapped
Last year Misfits frontman and goth metal star Glenn Danzig released Verotika, his debut film and an “instant cult classic” due to it being seen as hilariously bad. Shooting has [ … ]
The Pale Door (2020) – Coven of Western Witches
After a train robbery goes bad, two brothers leading a gang of cowboys must survive the night in a ghost town inhabited by a coven of western witches. Desperadoes meet [ … ]