While Young Ones is mostly escapist entertainment, it doesn’t shy away from weighty ethical questions, chief among them: Does the end always justify the means?
I’m writing this text right after finishing my rewatch of Serenity, an epilogue to Firefly. I’m sad, I feel like I just have to say “goodbye”...
When the characters of Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead finally leave the station and begin their trek into Mexico, the tension doesn’t subside.
Bone Tomahawk surprised me with its characters and the amount of time the director devotes to showing us that they are far more complex than they...
At the heart of Jane Got a Gun, everything seems in place, and this “prairie romance” is arranged skillfully enough not to scare off die-hard cowboys
To this day, the film enjoys considerable esteem—if not outright cult status. Blazing Saddles remains the best possible spoof of the Western genre...
Heaven’s Gate is a film that can be written about, reflected upon, and debated endlessly—a hallmark of the greatest works of cinema.
You might have some reservations about Tombstone, yet each time you watch this masculine ethos unfold, it’s as gripping as the first time and just as...
After all, despite the two decades since the release of A Fistful of Fingers, it remains the best western ever made… in Somerset.
There’s a folk legend that says some people are followed by the angel of death from the moment they are born. William Munny of Unforgiven was...