I mean, I guess Greaser’s Palace is a Western. What else would you call it? It takes place in a tiny, dusty town in what is clearly meant to be the old American Southwest. But then a character in a...
Sergio Corbucci’s The Great Silence belongs to a small but beguiling subgenre, the “snow western.” The decision to set a tale of gunslingers and pioneers in such a harsh climate is about more than just seeing snow accumulating on Stetson hats or...
Directors David and Nathan Zellner may have upped the star power with Damsel, their Western follow-up to 2014’s Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, but no one could accuse them of making a star vehicle. Even in his brief cameo in the...
It’s almost an admission of our collective failure to remember what it was like to be children that we find such relevance and currency in stories of kids and their pets. Our own, too little examined maturation makes boys and...
