The most likable film of the young year hits disc and VOD services today, along with a new Christian Bale Western that got a bit lost in the year-end prestige-pic shuffle. It makes a fine double-feature with a ‘90s Western from the great Jim Jarmusch, which joins the Criterion Collection – along with Sofia Coppola’s […]
Tag: ‘Hostiles’
Hostiles review: The wait for the next classic Western continues
It’s 1892, the wars between the US Army and the Native Americans are coming to an end and Christian Bale’s soldier Captain Joseph Blocker is at a crossroads. After leading the charge in several infamous massacres his reputation has become an embarrassment to the government, which is seeking an honourable end to decades of ethnic […]
‘Hostiles’ Trailer: Christian Bale Saddles Up For Scott Cooper’s Bleak Western
Christian Bale reunites with Out of the Furnace director Scott Cooper for Hostiles, a grim and gritty existential Western that looks like its striving to become a sweeping epic. Bale plays an Army captain tasked with escorting a dying Cheyenne war chief (Wes Studi) and his family back to tribal lands. Many shots of lonely vistas follow, which […]
‘Hostiles’ Review: Christian Bale Leads a Weary and Grim Western From Scott Cooper [TIFF]
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.” So begins the epigraph of Scott Cooper’s Hostiles, a Western that explores America’s then-undeveloped territories as a fertile ground for nihilism, despair and self-reflection. Gone is the frontier myth of endless possibility and opportunity, replaced by a plot that […]
Trailer Roundup: ‘Hostiles’, ‘A Fantastic Woman,’ ‘Wheelman,’ and ‘The Lodgers’
In the midst of all of the news items we regularly cover, sometimes a trailer or two finds its way past us and slips through the cracks. That’s especially true during a week that contains a major holiday. So meet me below and check out these trailers for Hostiles, The Lodgers, A Fantastic Woman, The Man […]
