Westerns

Dog’s Movie House: “News Of The World” A Thoughtful Western Featuring Tom Hanks!

Howdy Folks! It’s The Kendog with a look at “News Of The World” a new western film from Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Series) starring Tom Hanks as a world weary Civil War Veteran charged with taking a young girl of German descent back to her family after finding her hiding on the road. The film’s leisurely pace might turn off some, but those who stick with it will find a compelling story, beautifully shot scenery, and a couple of gangbuster performances from Hanks and young newcomer Helena Zengel.

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The Kenblog: Great Western Action Scenes!

 

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Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in “Tombstone”

 

 

Westerns are something of a dying breed in cinema nowadays.  From the 1930’s into the 70’s they were all the rage with legendary stars like John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Gary Cooper donning the cowboy hat and six shooters to bring justice to the wild, wild west.  Now westerns are few and far between, but those movies that do come out are pretty darn good.   Continue reading

Dog’s Movie House: “The Hateful Eight” Very Good Tarantino!

 

 

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Samuel L. Jackson In "The Hateful Eight"

Samuel L. Jackson In “The Hateful Eight”

 

 

I love Quentin Tarantino as a filmmaker, but I’m most enamored of him as a writer. The dialogue he writes for his films is profanity-laced poetry that rolls off the tongues of his actors like water over Niagra Falls. It’s the wonderful originality in his scripts that allows me to overlook the fact the most of his films are homages of the classic films he watched in his youth. Tarantino’s latest, “The Hateful Eight” is a nearly three-hour potboiler of a film that doesn’t really pick up from the action standpoint until about two-thirds of the way through, but the wonderfully written characters and terrific performances will keep you riveted the entire way through. Continue reading