At the rate Nicolas Cage churns out movies, it’s surprising to think that he’s never been in a Western before. But here we are in 2023 and I’ve just watched his first appearance in the genre: The Old Way. It’s an interesting turn for Cage. The plot isn’t anything weContinue Reading
1999’s Ravenous is a strange little movie. It’s essentially a cannibal western that features character actors like Guy Pearce (Memento) and Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty.) It’s hard to believe it was released by a mainstream film company. Yet, here we are. Pearce stars as Boyd, a U.S. Army soldierContinue Reading
The Frisco Kid tells the story of Avram Belinski, a Polish rabbi dispatched to a synagogue in San Francisco. He encounters a series of misadventures shortly after his boat lands in Philadelphia. After he loses his money to a trio of con men, Avram meets Tommy Lillard, a bank robber.Continue Reading
Royce Tullis (Clint James) and his gang are in the process of hunting down the jurors that sent his brother to the gallows. As the movie opens, they approach the homestead of the last juror standing. After killing him and his wife, they kidnap his daughter, Ruth (Anna Harr). IntendingContinue Reading
Robert Bronzi (aka Robert Kovacs) has made a career capitalizing on his resemblance to Charles Bronson. In 2018, he appeared in Death Kiss, where he played the role of “K”, a thinly veiled reference to the Paul Kersey character in the Death Wish series of films. In his third featureContinue Reading
Word-of-mouth and a frigid box-office reception gave me an obvious clue that 2010’s Jonah Hex should be a terrible movie. Based on DC Comics’ long-running western series and featuring an excellent cast and an interesting premise, I was surprised that it flopped. I had no knowledge of the comic seriesContinue Reading
Matthew Quigley (Tom Selleck) is an American sharpshooter who travels from Wyoming to Australia thinking he’s being hired to control dingoes on rancher Elliot Marston’s property. When he arrives in the port city of Fremantle, he saves a woman named Cora (Laura San Giacomo) from three men who are attemptingContinue Reading