There have been some seriously underrated Westerns over the last decade from Hostiles to Hell or High Water. Another critically acclaimed movie set in the US frontier that barely anyone saw upon release is 2015’s Slow West. This revisionist Western written and directed by John Maclean was his directorial debut. The film stars a young … Read more
Earlier this week we alerted film fans to the most underrated Western of the 21st century. Like much of the genre, Christian Bale’s Hostiles is set in the Wild West of the 19th century. But what about those modern or “neo-Westerns” in a contemporary setting? In recent years we’ve had TV shows like Breaking Bad … Read more
There have been some epic Westerns of the last 25 years from Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Revenant to No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood and True Grit. But the most underrated of them all was tragically overlooked for Oscars when it released in 2017. Written and directed by Scott Cooper, Hostiles stars Christian … Read more
