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Movie Reviews: TV Review: 1st segment of Comanche Moon mini-series
Posted on Tuesday, January 15 @ 02:09:52 PST (1908 reads)

Reg Seeton

Filmmakers take note; if you're looking for an actor to hold up your Western, call Steve Zahn. With that out of the way, the long awaited prequel to the popular Lonesome Dove books-turned-mini-series debuted on CBS on Sunday, January 13.

After eighteen years, the Pulitzer Prize winning mind of Larry McMurtry comes to life again in Comanche Moon, a powerful pre-Civil War journey across the Western frontier with the younger versions of Texas Rangers Gus McCrae (Steve Zahn) and Woodrow Call (Karl Urban) as they search for horse thieves (which includes Adam Beach) and a vicious Mexican bandit (Sal Lopez) while doggedly hunting for legendary Comanche war chief Buffalo Hump (Wes Studi).

It's this three-story search that pushes Comanche Moon forward across its three night run.

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Movie Reviews: Sequal to 'Dances With Wolves' to go into production soon
Posted on Friday, December 07 @ 04:18:28 PST (1877 reads)

AUTHOR: Tyrone Beason

Michael Blake, who wrote the novel Dances With Wolves in 1988 and later the 1990 screenplay for Kevin Costner's movie by the same name, has now completed a screenplay based on his latest novel, The Holy Road, which is a sequal to Dances With Wolves. The movie is expected to go into production soon.

Simon Wincer has signed on to direct "The Holy Road" for Moonstone, Amicus Entertainment and Double Eagle Films. Costner's production company passed on it a few years back, when Blake was just beginning the screenplay version.

Wincer most recently directed the Steven Spielberg-produced Emmy winner "Into the West." He also directed the Western miniseries "Lonesome Dove."

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Movie Reviews: TRAIL OF TEARS DVD RELEASE
Posted on Saturday, March 24 @ 17:01:40 PDT (3600 reads)

Anonymous writes
Rich-Heape Films Releases Documentary on ‘The Trail of Tears.’ Film Chronicles Forced Removal of Cherokee's to Oklahoma

The Trail of Tears: Cherokee legacy, a two hour, Hi Definition feature-length documentary, of the forced removal of the Cherokee from the southeast to Oklahoma in the 1838, will be released March 1, 2006.

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Movie Reviews: Basketball bridges cultures in new Chris Eyre film
Posted on Saturday, November 19 @ 13:15:52 PST (4994 reads)

AUTHOR: Jan-Mikael Patterson, Navajo Times

Native American director Chris Eyre delivers an impressive layup shot with his new film "Edge of America," a Showtime original picture airing later this month on cable TV, co-produced with Shelia Tousey.

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Movie Reviews: Spirit - Stallion of the Cimarron
Posted on Friday, July 12 @ 23:22:03 PDT (7796 reads)

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Spirit is a touching movie I had to go and see four times. This is the story of the Wild West as told from the heart of a mustang stallion during the encroachment of the Euro-Caucasians in the natural world west of the Mississippi.

Lessons to young children are subliminal in this movie. One such lesson is responsibility. Spirit is the Stallion leader of the herd. This is the only movie, cartoon or otherwise, that does not show the Native American in the typical stereotype of whooping and dressed in feathers.

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Movie Reviews: ''Skins'' scores with Native American saga
Posted on Tuesday, March 12 @ 23:08:50 PST (4176 reads)

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AUTHOR: David Rooney

Skins (Drama, color, no rating, 1 hour 27 minutes)

A story of conflict and eventual reconciliation between two Oglala Sioux brothers, ``Skins'' exposes the largely invisible reverse side of American prosperity by humanizing the scourge of alcoholism in dirt-poor Indian communities.

Second feature from Native American filmmaker Chris Eyre -- feted at Sundance for ``Smoke Signals'' in 1998 -- has a patched-together feel, and its aims as human drama, social documentary and vigilante movie are never quite reconciled.

But the delicately rendered story's warm characterizations, gentle humor and spiritual undertones make it an affecting portrait of a wounded people that should find responsive audiences on cable after a modest theatrical run.

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Movie Reviews: Eyre returns with "Skins"
Posted on Tuesday, January 22 @ 19:45:36 PST (3307 reads)

AUTHOR: Patrick Z. McGavin

Bristling with anger, humor and a deep sadness, Chris Eyre's second feature "Skins" is a torrent of moods, feelings and scorched fury.

In examining a struggle of acceptance and reconciliation between two brothers, the film acknowledges a culture whose scarred past and uncertain future remain inchoate and incomplete.

Note: Perhaps noteworthy: "Skins" was the only premiere to have received a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Movie Reviews: Skins Movie Review
Posted on Tuesday, January 08 @ 12:17:08 PST (5978 reads)

AUTHOR: Geoffrey Gilmore
Sundance Film Festival

When a filmmaker's directorial debut is as noteworthy and successful as Chris Eyre's 1998 award-winning Smoke Signals, it raises a high level of expectation for his next project as well as some trepidation.

The sophomore slump is as common to film careers as other endeavors. So it's a great pleasure to declare that Eyre avoids the usual pitfalls with Skins, a moving, often humorous, and finely accomplished story of two brothers living on the isolated Pine Ridge Reservation.

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Skins (Drama, color, no rating, 1 hour 27 minutes)