Kevin Costner’s Horizon sequel pulled from release after first film flops
Thine Ears Shall Bleed review – occult horror-western heads into the wilderness
June 2024
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 review – Kevin Costner’s unapologetically old-school western
Satisfying momentum builds in this involving but inauthentic first instalment of the Hollywood star’s mega-epic of settlers and Native Americans
Wendy Ide's film of the week
The Dead Don’t Hurt review – Vicky Krieps is a woman of substance in Viggo Mortensen’s offbeat western
The actor-director’s second film behind the camera is a quirky spin on the genre given true grit by its magnetic heroine
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
The Dead Don’t Hurt review – love blossoms amid violence in Viggo Mortensen’s western
The star directs, writes, composes and acts in this beautifully shot and sombre film about an old-school hero in a 19th-century frontier community fraught with tragedy
May 2024
Ranked
Happy 94th birthday Clint Eastwood: his best films – ranked!
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 – Costner casts himself as wildly desirable cowboy
‘A history that’s been suppressed’: the Black cowboy story is 200 years old
Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel
Peter Bradshaw
April 2024
The Stolen Valley review – Thelma and Louise-lite road western has right on its side
Director Jesse Edwards’ feature is well intentioned, but paper-thin characters, implausible plot twists and soap-opera moments relegate it to hokey cheapness
February 2024
How we made
‘I recently went back to the Texas border – and urinated on the wall’: how we made Lone Star
‘The film was 20 years ahead of its time. Look at what we’re dealing with now – border conflict is a nightmare’
The Promised Land review – Mads Mikkelsen stars in enjoyably gritty Nordic western
The bleak terrain of Jutland is the setting for an 18th-century battle over crops and land in Nikolaj Arcel’s rollicking true-life drama
The Promised Land review – Mads Mikkelsen is a Euro Gary Cooper in Nordic western
The Settlers review – Leone-inspired western packs a venomous bite
Blazing Saddles at 50: the button-pushing spoof that could never get made today
November 2023
Butcher’s Crossing review – Nicolas Cage keeps quiet in buffalo-hunting western
Cage leads a strong cast into the wilderness in an adaptation of John Williams’ punishing novel that cannot quite convey the full horror of its events
October 2023
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Streaming: Native American representation on screen before Killers of the Flower Moon
Ahead of Scorsese’s Osage Nation epic hitting cinemas this month, we look at the evolution of Indigenous life in film and TV, from The Searchers to Reservation Dogs
May 2023
Strange Way of Life review – Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke sizzle in Almodóvar’s queer cowboy yarn
The director gets back in the saddle at Cannes with this dusty lusty tale of long-lost lovers bound by a bloody fate
March 2023
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Streaming: the best films about journalism
Buck and the Preacher review – Poitier and Belafonte are a dream team in breezy western
