So few Westerns are made these days that it's somewhat shocking to see a well-pedigreed, meditative take on the genre come trotting along and tip its hat. "Hostiles" is the best film of its kind in ...
Based on a story by Donald E. Stewart, Scott Cooper wrote and directed the 2017 American Western drama film Hostiles. Entertainment Studios released it in limited quantities in the US on December 22, ...
Shortly before winning his first Oscar and an ACE Eddie award for La La Land, absorbed in the limelight of one of the year’s most highly acclaimed films, editor Tom Cross was in a very different ...
“Hostiles,” directed by Scott Cooper, is a thought-provoking and raw Western that produces a semblance of hope. Instead of glorifying the West, the film presents an accurate and hard-to-stomach ...
Trends in filmmaking come and go. One decade disaster films swarm the screen, only to be replaced by superhero films. A genre that never really goes out of style is the Western, perhaps because it ...
Hostiles 3.5 out of 5 Stars Director: Scott Cooper Writer: Scott Cooper (screenplay), Donald E. Stewart (manuscript) Starring: Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Wes Studi Genre: Adventure, Western, Drama ...
A ruthless killer of Native Americans is forced to confront his own prejudice in a Western that isn't nearly as progressive as it thinks. So, while taking a much harder edge to the feel-good ...
“I recall Robert Duvall telling me, ‘The English have Shakespeare; the French have Molière; we, as Americans, have Westerns,” Hostiles writer-director Scott Cooper told Deadline’s Pete Hammond at The ...
“Hostiles” is a violent movie, but also a quiet one. Often the soundtrack is only the wind or the snorting of horses, the creak of saddles, reins, bridles — or the jingle of chains. There are many ...