Posts Tagged ‘western’
DVD And Blu-ray
The Sabata Trilogy
Clint Eastwood was The Man With No Name. Lee Van Cleef was Sabata. The Sabata trilogy is very much the Spaghetti Western cousin of A Fistful of Dollars and, as might be expected, the themes and dramatic beats are similar. Gianf...
DVD And Blu-ray
Coogan’s Bluff
With a back catalogue that includes seminal Spaghetti Westerns such as A Fistful Of Dollars and gritty dramas like Play Misty For Me, it’s perhaps no surprise that Coogan’s Bluff tends to get lost amongst Clint Eastwood’s large...
Film
The Magnificent Seven
This lifeless remake of the classic 1960 western plays dangerously fast and loose with the meaning of the word ‘magnificent’. Forgettable is more like it. It’s a nothing film, director Antoine Fuqua (Southpaw)...
Film
Hell or High Water
Thinking of the reimagined Westerns of today, it’s easy to be immediately drawn to the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men, and quite rightly so. It’s an absolute behemoth of a film and brought a cinematic experience ba...
Film
A Million Ways To Die In The West
A broad modern gross-out comedy that plays intelligently with the cinematic heritage of the western genre, A Million Ways To Die In The West delivers a light, entertaining and ultimately enjoyable experience. The film opens wit...
