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July 16, 2024

Kevin Costner’s Horizon Is As Bad as You’ve Heard

Eileen Jones Jacobin

Supposedly the first of four films, Kevin Costner’s dull and messy Western throwback, Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1, is almost certainly dead on arrival.

film

March 16, 2021

Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin Shine in Trailer for Netflix's 'Concrete Cowboy'

Kristen Santer Collider

The juxtaposition of cowboys with urban life is a unique spin on neo-westerns, particularly due to the lack of black representation in the genre.

tv

November 26, 2017

Is Netflix's Godless Actually Feminist?

Anne Cohen Refinery29

Godless, Netflix's new Steven Soderbergh-produced six-part series set in a New Mexico mining town governed mainly by women, has been touted as a feminist Western, two words that typically mean opposite things.

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