Things rarely turn out the way we want them, and even less so for our protagonist, Ludvig Kahlen, played by Mads Mikkelsen, in the new film “The Promised Land.” The brazenly stoic war hero, now an impoverished farmer, comes home to cultivate the vacant, sterile and unkind heath, otherwise known […]
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When the Dust Settles, ‘Jane Got A Gun’ Misses Mark
Photo Courtesy of Georges Biard, Wikipedia Hot on the heels of Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” and Alejandro Iñárritu’s “The Revenant” is “Jane Got a Gun,” the third major Western film to come out of Hollywood in as many months. Helmed by relatively low-profile director Gavin O’Connor, “Jane” features several […]