Cry Macho (2021)
Sean
At one point, I found myself asking, “Is Mike Milo really Cowboy Jesus, or is this guy just incredibly lucky?” Cry Macho was reportedly Clint Eastwood’s final film as an…
Western
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The characters, the dialogue, and the emotional tension remain just as gripping today as they must have been in 1948. Sometimes a classic earns its reputation because of nostalgia. Other…
Big Jake (1971)
Fans of Wayne will likely enjoy spending another couple of hours with one of cinema’s greatest screen icons, but newcomers looking to explore either John Wayne or the Western genre…
The Searchers (1956)
John Wayne delivers one of the most layered and challenging performances of his career. John Ford’s The Searchers is often cited as one of the most important Westerns in cinematic…
The Old Way (2023)
Fans of gun-play and grit should know that this is a movie that runs more on character development than your standard shoot ’em up. At the rate Nicolas Cage churns…
Ravenous (1999)
Each performance — especially those of Pearce and Carlyle — shows that the actors have wholeheartedly bought in to the story. 1999’s Ravenous is a strange little movie. It’s essentially…
The Frisco Kid (1979)
It’s difficult to find much fault with a film containing such likable performances. The Frisco Kid tells the story of Avram Belinski, a Polish rabbi dispatched to a synagogue in…