Slow West (2015)
Slow West is an offbeat Western, set in the American Old West but featuring mostly non-U.S. actors and shot in New Zealand. it’s a movie that entertains more from the odd little touches — a...
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Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013)
David Lowery writes and directs this Badlands-esque, lyrically melancholy, Western-tinged, Texas-based drama about outlaw Bob Muldoon (Affleck), a convicted felon who makes his way out of prison to try to reconnect with Ruth Guthrie (Mara),...
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Introductions are hardly necessary for Sergio Leone’s grand epic western, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, the greatest of the spaghetti westerns. Though Leone had directed two very impressive entries already in in the...
Ghost Rider (2007)
One of Marvel’s second-tier “superhero” comics combines elements that were popular in the 1970s, including horror influences, motorcycle stunts, and a nomad protagonist who righted wrongs wherever he was needed. “Ghost Rider” wasn’t exactly...
Barb Wire (1996)
Barb Wire starts off with an inspired but bewildering inclusion of Gun’s cover of Cameo’s funk classic “Word Up!” while Pamela Anderson Lee (“Baywatch”) dances around, displaying her well-crafted assets, and you’d begin to...
Shrek 2 (2004)
A sheer delight from beginning to end, Shrek 2 manages to be even better than its now classic predecessor in scope and humor value. Whether or not the pop references and modern jokes will stand the...
The Rundown (2003)
Sometimes it’s the casting that makes or breaks a movie, and in casting The Rock as the good guy and Christopher Walken as the bad, you’re already halfway successful to make a fun, exciting movie. ...
Midnight Run (1988)
An ex-cop turned bounty hunter (De Niro) will get $100,000 for bringing in an accountant (Grodin) that embezzled $15 million from a giant Chicago mob boss. It figured to be a piece of cake. Still, things...