“Western” Articles

Both the Western and Star Wars imagine a world where character must be forged and not assumed, where goodness is real, but never cheap.

George Lucas wanted a sage order of warrior monks who preach that we should rid ourselves of desires, but he also wanted love to win.

By playing to the canon in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, while at once forging their own trail, the Coens manage to both nod to and question the orthodoxy of what we’ve been told about the grand ‘ole world of outlaws and guns and rickety wagons.

This week’s episode is concerned with both the final frontier and the western frontier as Wade and Kevin discuss ‘Arrival’ and ‘In a Valley of Violence”