Tag Archives: western

I am sucker for a good western. Something slow-paced that can move easily between quiet moments of reflection and outbursts of searing brutality. The frontier is also a rich setting for conflict. Hostiles could have drifted into dangerously old-fashioned territory ...

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. So begins the sprawling interdimensional adventure series The Dark Tower, written by Stephen King. This dauntingly large story from one of the most successful mainstream authors of our ...

I have been looking forward to this novella since I interviewed Sarah Gailey almost six months ago (listen to the interview here). How could you hear this premise and not immediately want to read it? Hippo cowboys! I say again: ...

Is the modern Texan western a genre now? I can’t help feeling that since No Country for Old Men, we’ve seen a number of imitators or people following that tradition. In this case, the ‘state of Texas’ seems to be ...

I love a good Western. The best Westerns have simple premises and tend to stay focused on one single plot line, something Jane Got a Gun sets up before spectacularly discarding in favour of a meandering, flavourless, tension-less narrative. With ...

I was a big fan of Alejandro González Iñárritu’s previous film Birdman. His lastest outing, The Revenant, has scooped up accolades left, right and centre: indeed, it is predicted to be the big winner at the Oscars. It is a ...

I’m often told that you either love or loathe Quentin Tarantino. I can’t say I have such a black and white experience with his filmography – there are many of his films I greatly enjoy, and others I find thoroughly ...

Sanderson is currently the poster child for popular fantasy writing. And there’s a blood good reason for that – he’s great. It was the original Mistborn series that first made me fall for Sanderson’s storytelling and since then The Stormlight ...

Slow West is a film I went to see with some enthusiasm. The first major feature of filmmaker John MacClean, it won a prize at the Sundance Film Festival, it occupies that heady position of being an independent western and ...

Science fiction in general is an awesome genre to mash-up with pretty much any other genre. Actually, I defy you to come up with a scifi genre mash-up that doesn’t work (I realise this is a dangerous game to play. After challenging ...