Tag Archives: Western

Review: The Revenant (2015)

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

I’m one of a rapidly shrinking camp that still thinks that BIRDMAN deserved to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards last year. Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu is an iconoclast out to shake things up in Hollywood by being stylistically … Continue reading →

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Review: The Hateful Eight (2015)

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

With THE HATEFUL EIGHT Quentin Tarantino may well have invented a new sub-genre: the misdirection-Western. The mystery that is seemingly a key plot point from the second act onward is, in fact, pretty incidental. While this might disappoint some, the … Continue reading →

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Review: The Homesman (2014)

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

Tommy Lee Jones’ return to feature directing nine years after THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA doesn’t quite strike the same perfect balance of tone, characterisation and slow-burning story, but it does reaffirm Jones’ mercurial eye for detail and reemphasise  … Continue reading →

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Review: The Lone Ranger (2013)

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

It’s rare thing that a film so completely divides critics in the USA from the rest of the world. Star Armie Hammer claimed that “If you go back and read the negative reviews, most of them aren’t about the content … Continue reading →

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Breaking Bad: A Very Filmic Television Experience

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

BREAKING BAD has now come to a glorious end, and it really was a television marvel. The show, about a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher cooking crystal meth to secure his family’s future, was thematically layered, beautifully performed, perfectly paced, artfully filmed and … Continue reading →

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