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Gunless re-invents the re-invention of the western -- and does so with panache, poignancy, humour and even romance ( Read more... )

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Canadians are a good, decent, smart and funny people who can make good, decent and smart movies. What eludes us, with all due respect to Porky's, is the funny ones ( Read more... )

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Back in 2003, writer/director William Phillips dumped Foolproof into theatres: a fairly benign piece of Can-Con starring Ryan Reynolds and Kristin Booth that flailed frantically to pass itself off as a real-deal Hollywood heist flick. Nobody bought it and the film bombed (critically and commercially). Seven years later, Phillips offers Gunless as a ( Read more... )

After branding the screen with a sizzling Alliance stamp and flashing a title card that reads “Once upon a time in the North,” Gunless sets about the tricky business of presenting a Canadian take on that most American of genres: the western ( Read more... )