western
CLAY FARMERS : a queer western romance that preceded Brokeback Mountain by 18 years
Clay Farmers is a queer western-based romance that was made in 1988 a full 17 years before Brokeback Mountain, although it never created anything like the same impact as its successor. It is the debut, and only feature-length film from director A P Gonzalez from the only script ever written by Michael Moore was…
Pedro Almodovar’s new western queer romance is what we all have been waiting for
A new movie from the queer Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar is always a big event for both his fans and avid cineastes. Strange Way of Life, Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming gay western romance is no exception. Starring Ethan Hawke, Pedro Pascal, and Manu Rios, and it will be Almodóvar’s first movie shot in English…
The Hateful 8
You would have had to be living on another planet for the past couple of decades not to know that all the movies made by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino contain some of the most excruciating gratuitous violence ever seen on the screen. However you will also know, and hopefully appreciate, that at the same time they…
Slow West
16-year-old Jay Cavendish travels from Scotland to Colorado in hot pursuit of the object of his affections after she had to flee the country in haste when her father had accidentally killed a local aristocratic landowner. It’s the 1880’s and the naïve young Scot is totally unprepared for the rough Wild West and all the…
