Movie Review: Golden Kamuy
Adapting a live action version of a Japanese manga is high risk/high reward. If you succeed, you could get something really fun and well like, …
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Movie Review: National Anthem
Brokeback Mountain tried in 2005. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal tried to show the world there were gay cowboys…and the world was only ready to …
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
The real rating is Incomplete. After years on Yellowstone the TV show and decades away from his movie heights, Kevin Costner decided now was the …
Movie Review: Sisu
Let Sisu be a forever lesson for all the screenwriters out there. If you’re ever struggling with choosing a villain for your film. Just pick …
Movie Review: The Harder They Fall
There are so few African Americans portrayed in movies about the West, Blazing Saddles mocked it 50 years ago. But 50 years on, Jeymes Samuel …
Movie Review: Cry Macho
Only Betty White has more energy than Clint Eastwood. Still bucking those broncos at 91, Eastwood just keeps churning out film after film after film. …
Movie Review: Those Who Wish Me Dead
I’m sure there’s a reason this movie isn’t called Forest Fire; probably some trademark/copyright issue. Too bad, because what’s a better pitch that “Forest Fire: …
Movie Review: Concrete Cowboy
Concrete Cowboy wins the UnWestern award for being a Western somehow set in that classic Western setting of North Philadelphia. That’s right. Apparently there’s a …
Movie Review: Nomadland
Chloe Zhao burst onto the movie scene with The Rider, an amazing story about a Native American Cowboy in South Dakota. Zhao’s tales are the …