Sentences with phrase «western genre»

The Western genre is woefully underrepresented, so there is plenty of space for two games, especially on different platforms.

A modern twist on the Western genre, Justified is the story of Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), a U.S. Marshal who returns to his rural hometown beneath the shadow of the Appalachians.

By placing women in the heroic roles occupied by men she points a finger at the limited access of women to power in the western genre.

By painting strong and fierce women in place of the stereotypical male hero in the Hollywood version of the West, Felice House deals directly with the limited access of women to power in the western genre.

annual exhibition hosted by Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Arizona features contemporary female artists working in the Western genre.

The Western: An Epic in Art and Film is the first major exhibition to examine the Western genre and its evolution from the mid-1800s to the present through fine art, film, and popular culture.

An episodic shooter emphasizing tactical elements, set in a universe that combines science fiction and the Western genre.

A sequel to the tactical shooter that combined science fiction and the Western genre.

I wasn't really convinced I would like it due to being less fond of the whole Western genre.

While the Western genre has had success in all areas of entertainment; ranging from cinema and TV shows to novels and comics, it has historically had difficulty finding its mark in the video game business.

Verdict Call of Juarez Gunslinger is an over-the-top action shooter and anyone with an affinity for FPS and the Western genre would do well to give it a try.

It's described as being a peek behind - the - scenes of development and a «love letter» to the western genre.

I really dig westerns, so when I heard about Re-Western, a project to genderswap some of the most iconic roles in the Western genre, I got super excited.

Gunslinging bandits, bounty hunters and righteous cowboys are some of the most used character typologies, sparking a lot of interest among the fans of the western genre.

It was met with a high degree of enthusiasm by the fans of the Western genre and it includes several gameplay modes.

Compared to a desolate setting like what we've seen in Fallout 3, which has a lot of the Western genre to it, it's just weak.

While not perfect, it is highly enjoyable even for people who may not consider themselves a fan of the western genre.

By no means a bad game, but it has equal parts convincingly immersive details particular to the Western genre, and unconvincingly silly or bland videogame tropes at the same time.

However, given the clichés of the Western genre, Techland can get away with sticking it in there.

It's a Western genre done justice by a Japanese studio in a way that echoes Platinum's Vanquish as a response to Gears Of War; by stripping back the multiplayer and focusing on the solo sorties, Capcom has crafted its finest RPG to date.

I was astonished to find that the various SF, Mystery, Romance, and Western genre guilds / associations didn't have storefronts for their members and a service to manage their members» backlist and non-tradpub stories.

As one reviewer said, eating a book based on if you think you might like it would be like me rating every book in the western genre with one star.

Cottonwood Publishing is a small press publisher publishing Western genre books and art, primarily work written and drawn by Stan Lynde.

I really enjoy the western genre.

Going out with a bang It's become customary to talk about Sam Peckinpah's classic as the tombstone of the Western genre, the moment when Hollywood's already - tired tradition of white - hat heroics was plunged irrevocably into nihilism, apocalypse and zero - sum catharsis.

Gunslinging bandits, bounty hunters and righteous cowboys are some of the most used character typologies, sparking a lot of interest among the fans of the western genre.

After the tremendous success of «The Adventures of Robin Hood,» Warner Bros. reunited that film's five top stars - Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Alan Hale, co-director Michael Curtiz, and Technicolor - for another mega-production, and according to historians Robert Osborne and Rudy Behlmer in the DVD's short but informative featurette, «Dodge City» elevated the western genre from B - picture status, to a feature attraction.

Yet, by playing a Clooney — Damon — Pitt game, Iñárritu uses the western genre for a simplified critique of American temperament: Glass always physically conflicts with threatening forces, including bedrock, redneck conservatism.

The film is generally used to mark the end of the classic periods of films noir, and in the same way Unforgiven (# 1, 1992) represents the carrying of the Western genre to it's most fundamental extreme, so Touch Of Evil is the ultimate noir both stylistically and thematically.

Eastwood's film was a brilliant take on the Western genre as it touched on the darker aspects of the Old West of legend.

While I am not a huge fan of the Western genre, I feel like the Coen brothers paid some homage to the genre and did nothing over-the-top, probably for the better.

SIFF 2017 IBERO - AMERICAN COMPETITION WINNER GRAND JURY PRIZE THE WINTER (EL INVIERNO)(d: Emiliano Torres, Argentina / France 2016) JURY STATEMENT: A complex and multi-layered first feature that bends the Western genre to create a remarkable film that is as much about the relationship between two men, as it is about Man's relationship to the landscape.

Driven by staunch authenticity and a career understanding of the western genre on screen, she has contributed to making this show a sweeping, epic dedication to a time populated by heroes, villains and those just trying to survive.

8:00 pm — TCM — The Good, the Bad, the Ugly The final film of the Leone - Eastwood Man With No Name series, and possibly the height of the spaghetti western genre.

You have to do a little trash diving with A Million Ways to Die in the West but it excels when deconstructing the Western genre.

On the other side of the pond, Shane Meadows's Once Upon a Time in the Midlands is also about a guitarist treated unkindly, a mysterious stranger with a fearsome reputation, an idyllic relationship disrupted by tragedy, a self - described «mysterious Zorro figure,» and another take on the western genre complete with an ambling Southwestern - flavoured score.

The cast are on fine form, led by Kurt Russell, an actor who seems in no rush to move on from the Western genre, after two successful stints as the grizzly lawman figure.

In this 1939 film, Wayne is an outlaw traveling in a cramped stagecoach along with a prostitute (Claire Trevor, who turns in an amazing performance) and various other staple characters of the Western genre perfectly calculated for maximum uncomfortability.

Clint Eastwood's masterpiece strips the western genre down to it's essence and examines the brutal and senseless nature of the violence at its core.

You don't have to be all that well - versed in TV history to know that the turn of the millennium was not exactly what you'd call the glory days of the western genre, but given that PAX - TV was trying to cater to an older, gentler demographic, it's understandable why they'd decide that it might be a reasonable plan of action to try and revisit the lives of the Cartwright family and reveal what was going on in the years prior to those portrayed in «Bonanza.»

Usually when we refer to neo-Westerns, we mean movies that transplant the themes and iconography of the Western genre into modern day settings.

adapted well to the Western genre the first time Hollywood brought it to American shores.

Kevin returns here to the western genre and he's certainly got the eye for those sweeping panoramic shots of wide open country and an ear for swelling music to cue the audience that this is a big picture.

Slow West is a really rewarding and unusual take on the western genre.

Director Michael Matthews and screenwriter Sean Drummond know the language of the western genre well enough to give it due place: wide angle shot of a beautiful, empty landscape, which speaks to both the wildness of this end of the line place, and the people who cling to it, even if the future seems less than hopeful for change.

OPEN RANGE will not kill the western genre.

THE WILD BUNCH was a film that turned the western genre on its head.

There's also the fact that Franco has never really tackled the traditional Western genre yet.

For some, it's all about Peter Jackson's return to Middle Earth, for others Quentin Tarantino taking on the Western genre.

James Badge Dale, Ethan Embry and William Forsythe lead the cast in this morally conflicted period piece which yearns to reminds us how wonderful the western genre is, but ultimately finds itself lost on the frontier.