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Western 8
A Fitting, Impressive Goodbye
Andy Hoglund writes about "Logan," the latest and purportedly last time Hugh Jackman will play famed X-Man Wolverine.
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Celebrating the Great Revisionist Western
Jeremy Carr explores Robert Altman's classically complex Western "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" as it gets the Criterion Blu-ray treatment.
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“The Good Dinosaur” Is Pixar’s Most Beautiful Film Yet
Almost 10 years ago, Pixar Animation Studios established the high standard of photorealism in computer animation with Cars. The 2006 film is far from perfect (its story is thin, as are its characters), but its approximation of the American Southwest is a pinna...
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“Bone Tomahawk” Isn’t Fooling Around
I’m not sure if the disparate genre elements in Bone Tomahawk all hang together quite as well as they should, but one thing for certain is that first-time writer-director S. Craig Zahler isn’t fooling around. A sci-fi horror cannibal exploitation picture by wa...
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Fantastic Fest Review: “No Man’s Land”
Ning Hao has had a rough time lately. After debuting his previous film, Crazy Racer, the Chinese director went on to make a film about a criminal defense lawyer stuck in the desert of China after winning a case for a falcon poacher. The film was rejected by th...
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History of Film: “Once Upon a Time in the West”
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The English have Shakespeare, the French have Molière, the Russians have Chekhov, the Argentines have Borges, but the Western is ours.
- Robert Duvall
The Western may be the only art form entirely specific to a time and p...
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Netflix Weekend: Two Comedies and Western to watch instead of McFarlane’s Drivel
Welcome to Netflix Weekend! Each week I’ll be highlighting three films available to watch on Netflix Instant Watch that (hopefully) have a coherent theme about them and why they should be watched.
This week we’ll be highlighting three movies you could be w...
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Looking Back: “The Hanging Tree”
How rich was the Western during the 1950s? So rich that even masterpieces like John Ford’s The Searchers and Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo barely scratch the surface, so rich that more than half a century later we’re still mining for beauty. There’s the terse parabl...
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