Western movies come back to the big screen
THE REVENANT
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter and Domhnall Gleeson. Reviewer Todd McCarthy says it pushes brutal realism and visual poetry to the edges of what one finds in American filmmaking. DiCaprio is amazing.
THE HATEFUL EIGHT
The American Western-mystery film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Walton Goggins. Eight strangers seek refuge from a blizzard in a stagecoach stopover sometime after the American Civil War.
DIABLO
Starring Walton Goggins (the villain) and Scott Eastwood, it's a thriller that follows a Civil War veteran, who has to rescue his kidnapped wife from bandits. It shows PTSD in Civil War soldiers. Goggins says Westerns, by their nature, live outside the confines of law and order.
BONE TOMAHAWK
You don't usually hear the words "western" and "horror" spoken together, but in this movie Richard Jenkins and Kurt Russell face down cannibal cave dwellers. Be ready to be scared and shocked.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.
