Little Woods Directed by Ni DaCostaWritten by Ni DaCosta The review: A quality dramatic film with about the life of a person facing economic challenges is always a win in my book, which makes [...]
The review: George Stevens’ Shane is a manly Western, but not toxically so, and includes an interesting performance by Alan Ladd* and a terrible performance by Brandon De Wilde.** The [...]
The review: Scott Cooper’s Hostiles is full of good acting and is so very long it seemed as if a presidential administration had passed by the time I got to the last frame of the movie.* [...]
I was calibrated to the wrong type of Coen Brothers film when I sat down to watch The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.* What I found were six pretty good stories firmly set in the business-as-usual Wild [...]
While The Sisters Brothers is a good addition to the Western genre, it didn’t dazzle me on many fronts. The acting was good, with John C. Reilly being the standout.* This is not a movie [...]
Various problems with DVDs and many holds at the library meant that watching High Noon was a long time coming. However, once I successfully did press play, I was thrilled to find that this is a [...]
Initially, I stayed away from this film because I was annoyed that a movie set on the Wind River Indian Reservation starred two white people.* I’m glad I watched this story of a tracker and [...]