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Movie Reviews
| September Dawn. Dir. by Christopher Cain. Prod. by Christopher Cain and Scott Duthie. September Dawn/Voice Pictures, 2007. 110 mins. (Sony Home Entertainment, http://www.sonypictures.com/)
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| The western is back. Maybe. After a long dry spell interrupted only by Brokeback Mountain (2005), the fall of 2007 saw the release of three westerns in quick succession, marking a revival of sorts. September Dawn offers a retelling of the 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre, which, together with No Country for Old Men (2007) and a remake of the classic 3:10 to Yuma (2007), have ratcheted up the genre's violence to new levels of computer-enhanced intensity. |
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