Chambara movies and westerns have been two genres that have complimented each so beautifully that classics from the former have easily lent themselves as material to the latter. There are movies like Yojimbo, Seven Samurai, and even Rashomon that were remade as A Fistful of Dollars, The Magnificent Seven (not […]
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With a 94% positive rating by critics and a 91% positive audience rating, Old Henry must be one of the most critically acclaimed and popular western movies in recent memory. Is it really that good? At first sight it tells a rather familiar western story of a widower and a […]
Slated by critics, loved by his fans, this over-cooked, over-ambitious, over-everything western, Pale Rider (1984), Clint Eastwood’s third as a director, offers both the best and worst of its star and maker. The story told here, is one of the oldest (and most prolific) in the history of the western […]
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1969 / Director: Don Siegel) was written by Bud Boetticher with the idea that he’d also be the director of the movie, but the project was taken away from him and rewritten by others as a vehicle for Clint Eastwood, who had recently risen to stardom […]
Forsaken is a 2015 western starring Kiefer Sutherland (The Lost Boys). Next to a number of other recent westerns, I was looking forward to this one quite a bit. It kept a low profile, maybe due to lack of other bigger (charming) stars, as the Sutherlands (his father Donald plays his on-screen […]
One of the greatest revenge themed Westerns is Henry Hathaway’s NEVADA SMITH (1966) starring Steve McQueen. The story is set in the 1890s and begins when three outlaws Jesse Coe (Martin Landau), Bill Bowdre (Arthur Kennedy) and Tom Fitch (Karl Malden) viciously rob, torture and kill the parents of young […]
Jane Got a Gun, the much delayed 2015 western with Natalie Portman (Closer), Joel Edgerton (Warrior) and Ewan McGregor (A Life Less Ordinary) has seen a troubled production history. It got released very late into theaters (or not at all), disappeared as quickly as it arrived and is now trying […]
S. Craig Zahler‘s western BONE TOMAHAWK earned lots of great reviews over the last few days. That makes it even more unfortunate that the film is only getting a very limited theatrical and video on demand release (it’s not released in Germany at all so I had to watch it […]
When Denmark lost the war against Austria and Prussia, many Danes serving in its army migrated to the US, to start a new life. So do Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) and his brother Peter (Mikael Persbrandt) in the Western The Salvation by Kristian Levring. A Danish Western, shot in beautiful South […]
Every now and then we at Furious Cinema turn to one of our favorite classic genres, the western. We’ve previously posted a list of 50 Furious Westerns, and to build on that, we’re launching a series of in-depth looks at some classics of the genre. No rules. Bad Company (1972) […]