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.
