Classic Western screening marathon celebrates Dead Man’s Burden

Jared Moshé makes his feature directing debut with the hard-edged classical western Dead Man’s Burden, opening Friday, May 3rd at the Village East in New York City. On Monday April 29th, a seminal Western classics screening marathon will celebrate the release of Dead Man’s Burden in Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn bar and screening room ….

New photos of Jamie Foxx and Leonardo DiCaprio from Quentin Tarantino’s western Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino’s western epic Django Unchained is set in the South two years before the Civil War. The new film stars Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail ….

Win a copy of Hell on Wheels: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray or DVD

E-One Entertainment just released the groundbreaking Western TV series Hell on Wheels: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray and DVD. To celebrate the home entertainment release of the AMC series, FilmFetish is giving away one copy each of the Blu-ray and the DVD, to readers. In order to be entered the random Hell on Wheels: ….

First official images from Quentin Tarantino’s western epic Django Unchained

Fans got a view of the teaser poster for Quentin Tarantino’s western Django Unchained a few weeks ago, and now Entertainment Weekly has revealed the first official images from the upcoming Spaghetti Western, which is set for release in North America on Christmas Day and then in the UK on January 18th, 2013. First is ….

Check out first look image of Johnny Depp as Tonto in the upcoming Lone Ranger movie

Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films have revealed an early look at The Lone Ranger, which features Johnny Depp in full make-up as Tonto, and Armie Hammer as the namesake masked lawman. From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski (the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise), comes Disney/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ The Lone Ranger, an ….

The Magnificent Seven Blu-ray review

Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 epic The Seven Samurai is westernized in John Sturges’ thrilling adventure The Magnificent Seven. Academy Award Winner Yul Brynner plays Chris, a mercenary hired to protect a Mexican farming village from its annual invasion by bandit Calvera (Eli Wallach). The Magnificent Seven also featured landmark performances from Steve McQueen, Charles ….

Cowboys & Aliens to be released in select IMAX theatres

IMAX, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures International today announced an agreement to offer the sci-fi western thriller Cowboys & Aliens in select international digital IMAX theatres day-and-date with each territory’s release date, starting in August. The release marks the continuation of the relationship between IMAX, Paramount Pictures International and director Jon Favreau, whose most recent ….

Arnold Schwarzenegger to star in modern-day Western Last Stand

Arnold Schwarzenegger will make his return to the big screen in a modern-day Western from Lionsgate called The Last Stand, according to THR. It was first rumored that former California Governor Schwarzenegger might return to the Terminator franchise, the film series that brought him to fame. But a smaller film like The Last Stand to ….

Martial arts action fantasy Bunraku to screen at West Coast anime convention

Writer and director Guy Moshe’s Bunraku – which stars Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman, Gackt, Kevin McKidd, Shun Sugata, Jordi Mollà, Emily Kaiho, Mike Patton, Neil D’Monte, Fernando Chien and Maxim Esterkin – will be screening at AM2 on Sunday, July 3rd, 2011 at 3:00 pm, in Video Room 1. AM2 is ….