• February 26, 2024
• Moviepie Musings, Western

After spending several seasons in the New West of the mega-hit series Yellowstone, Kevin Costner dropped out to return to filmmaking… more specifically a project that has been simmering...

• November 5, 2020
• At Home, Drama, Western

At first Margaret and George Blackledge might be confused for Clark Kent’s parents. After all, they are played by Diane Lane and Kevin Costner, both looking comfortably weathered like...

• May 14, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Western

The opening sequence of The Sisters Brothers is visually striking in what you cannot see. In the distance, flashes of gunfire light up complete darkness. You make out that...

• September 27, 2018
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Western

Selleck plays an American cowboy named Matthew Quigley who shows up on the shores of rough and tumble Wild West-era Australia. An Australian rancher (played by go-to bad guy...

• January 5, 2018
• At Home, Drama, Western

It is 1892 New Mexico, and the violence and genocide that has shaped the Europeans’ settlement in the American West is winding down. Hostiles’ difficult opening scene shows a...

• November 14, 2017
• At Home, Science Fiction, Television

You know the slogan: “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”? Now imagine an even more exclusive adult playground, where for a measly fortune you can indulge every appetite...

• July 12, 2016
• Action, At Home, Drama

The Revenant (which I know from seeing the excellent, unrelated French series Les Revenants) means one who has returned from the dead. Though this is not really explained in...

• December 27, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Western

Oh, man, I loved The Man From Snowy River when it first came out in the 80s. I wasn’t really a horse girl, but I was obsessed with Australia....

• October 1, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Western

If you’re inclined to feel put off by a film called Let God, perhaps you’d feel better about watching something called The Trail. One sounds specifically aimed at Christian...

• July 25, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Western

Out in the Old West, there was a disproportionate amount of men to women. The men came seeking adventure and fortune, and the few women that followed them were...

• April 9, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Television

As someone who unexpectedly kind of loved When Calls the Heart, I was thrown off when its sequel, When Calls the Heart: Lost and Found began with a reworking...

• December 31, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Romance, Western

It is 1900, Nome, Alaska, where a gold rush is in full swing. Sam McCord (John Wayne) and his buddy George Pratt (Stewart Granger) have done just fine (which...