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The Power of the Dog (2021)- BFI London Film Festival 2021

Posted by Gui on October 11, 2021

Review 126min Genre:       Drama, Romance, Western Director:     Jane Campion Cast:         Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons…more Writers:     Jane Campion and Thomas Savage -Synopsis- In early 20th century rural Montana, a domineering rancher ruthlessly rules his roost only for his life to be upended by the arrival of his brother’s new widower wife and her son, […]

The Harder They Fall (2021)- BFI London Film Festival 2021

Posted by Gui on October 8, 2021

Review 130min Genre:       Action, Thriller, Western Director:     Jeymes Samuel Cast:         Idris Elba, Regina King, Jonathan Majors…and more Writers:     Jeymes Samuel and Boaz Yakin -Synopsis- In the old American west, a vengeful outlaw assembles his rag-tag crew for some payback on his fearsome recently-released enemy and his own gang, in this classic yet modern ensemble […]

The Sisters Brothers (2018)

Posted by Gui on April 7, 2019

Review 122min Genre:       Crime, Drama, Western Director:    Jacques Audiard Cast:         Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal…and more Writers:     Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Patrick DeWitt -Synopsis- When their latest contract takes them across the unforgiving mid-19th century American West on a hunt for a gold prospector with a valuable secret, the notorious pair of […]

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on November 14, 2018

Review 132min Genre:       Comedy, Drama, Musical, Western Directors:   Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Cast:         Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson…and more Writers:     Joel Coen and Ethan Coen -Synopsis- The Coen Brothers and Netflix bring us a unique Western anthology, a compendium of six stories set in the 19th century American frontier, chronicling the old […]

Hostiles (2017)

Posted by Gui on January 5, 2018

Review 133min Genre:       Drama, Western Director:    Scott Cooper Cast:         Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi…and more Writers:     Scott Cooper and Donald E. Stewart -Synopsis- In the post civil war 19th century American frontier, a respected and bigoted army captain and his unit reluctantly escort a tribal chief and his family home to Montana, a dangerous […]

Brimstone (2017)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 23, 2016

148min Genre:       Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western Director:    Martin Koolhoven Cast:         Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Carice van Houten…and more Writer:      Martin Koolhoven -Synopsis- Dakota Fanning stars in the 19th century American frontier tale of a young mute mother, whose life is thrown into turmoil by the appearance of a commanding and sinister reverend in her small […]

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

Posted by Gui on September 24, 2016

Review 133min Genre:     Action, Western Director:  Antoine Fuqua Cast:       Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Haley Bennett…and more Writers:   Richard Wenk, Nic Pizzolatto, Akira Kurosawa… and more -Synopsis- Antoine Fuqua (Southpaw, Training Day) reboots the 1960 classic western remake of the Akira Kurosawa masterpiece; a late 19th century tale set in the old American West, following 7 […]

Jane Got a Gun (2016)

Posted by Gui on April 20, 2016

Review 98min Genre:      Western, Drama Director:   Gavin O’Connor Cast:        Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Ewan McGregor…and more Writers:    Brian Duffield, Anthony Tambakis & Joel Edgerton -Synopsis- In the post civil-war American west; a Southern belle recruits an old flame to help protect her reformed outlaw husband from his brutal ex-gang and their ruthless leader in this […]

Bone Tomahawk (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on February 21, 2016

Review 132min Genre:     Western, Horror Director:  S. Craig Zahler Cast:       Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox…and more Writer:    S. Craig Zahler -Synopsis- Following a mysterious kidnapping in small-town old American west, a group of townsfolk form a posse to track down the cave-dwelling savages that took their people in this unique western/horror/drama indie from 1st […]

The Hateful Eight (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on January 8, 2016

Review 186min Genre:      Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Western Director:   Quentin Tarantino Cast:        Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Samuel L. Jackson…more Writer:     Quentin Tarantino -Synopsis- In the cold post civil war American frontier, a hardened bounty-hunter and his prisoner are joined by extra passengers as they head for an isolated lodge to escape a fierce blizzard, […]

The Good Dinosaur (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on November 27, 2015

Review 100min Genre:      Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Western Director:   Peter Sohn Cast:        Raymond Ochoa, Jeffrey Wright, Sam Elliott…and more Writers:    Peter Sohn, Erik Benson , Meg LeFauve … and more -Synopsis- In an alternate pre-history where the Dinosaurs survived and live like early humans who consider savage cave-people to be primitive critters, a timid young […]

Slow West (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on June 25, 2015

Review 84min Genre:   Western, Drama Director: John Maclean Cast:      Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender, Ben Mendelsohn…more Writer:   John Maclean A young Scottish lad crosses the Ocean and the wild unforgiving plains of 19th Century America to find his true love who was forced to flee their homeland, as he tries to avoid a selection of cutthroats […]

The Salvation (2014) (English & Danish Language)

Posted by Gui on April 17, 2015

Review 92min Genre:      Western, Drama, Action Director:   Kristian Levring Cast:        Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan…and more Writers:    Kristian Levring, Anders Thomas Jensen A Danish immigrant in the late 19th century American west finds himself in the crosshairs of a ruthless outlaw when he kills the gang leader’s brother for murdering his wife and […]