Top 10 Modern Westerns Jack Blackwell September 20, 2016 Analysis, Features, Top 10 The Western was once one of Hollywood’s most important and bankable staple genres, but come the 1960s and the various changes that brought for the industry its popularity waned, never to recover save a few...
A Beginner’s Guide To… Westerns Eddie Falvey June 24, 2015 A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features The Western genre is sumptuously classical, historically entwined with cinema since its birth - and yet it is also helplessly turbulent, subject to postcolonial criticism for the histories it depicts in its...
Second Chance: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Eddie Falvey November 16, 2014 Features, Nostalgia, Second Chance There is an almost mythic timelessness that permeates Andrew Dominik’s 2007 will-be masterpiece The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Seven years on it is not hard to see how such a...