Ghosts of Red Ridge

Western

Available on VOD: 6 februari 2025

Director: Stefan Colson

Cast: Owen Williams, Trent Culkin, Griffin Wade, Mercedes Peterson

In the dying town of Red Ridge, a local Sheriff and his Deputy grapple with a band of outlaws causing chaos amidst the town's decline. Complicating matters, the Sheriff is experiencing haunting visions while managing a mysterious stranger locked up in the dilapidated jail.

• Sonic-cinema.com:  Director Stefan Colson uses economical set ups and production values to good effect in this film; even if it starts a bit rough, he smooths it out as the story gets along (that includes the performances), and the result is a solid western programmer.
• Voicesfromthebalcony.com: Ghosts of Red Ridge does look good, a conventional tale of lawmen and outlaws in the old west.

Murder at Yellowstone City

Western

Available on VOD: 1 december 2022

Director: Richard Gray

Cast: Thomas Jane (The Expanse, Before I Wake, The Thin Red Line), Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary, The Usual Suspects), Richard Dreyfuss (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Book Club), Isaiah Mustafa (IT Chapter Two), Nat Wolff (The Stand, The Kill Team)

A former slave who arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a desolate former boomtown now on the decline, looking for a place to call home. On that same day, a local prospector discovers gold - and is murdered.

• Variety.com: Director Richard Gray’s well-crafted and handsomely mounted indie is as much a solidly constructed mystery as it is it a conventionally satisfying oater, with much to recommend to fans of either genre who rarely get to sample such a mix.
• Commonsensemedia.org: moves at an unhurried pace, balancing its thoughtful ideas with vivid storytelling and strong characters.
• Horrorbuzz.com: Worth a watch for its cast alone. As a whodunit murder mystery, Murder at Yellowstone City entertains.
• Elementsofmadness.com: A star-studded western thriller that hits the target.
• Thehollywoodoutsider.com: Murder at Yellowstone City sets out to do what very few outside of The Hateful Eight have done: craft a genuine murder mystery in the Old West.
• Thefilmstage.com: With a sprawling cast of familiar faces, Murder at Yellowstone City reveals itself as character-driven from the start.
• Moviehole.net: Good twists and turns, nifty direction and some good production design.
• Screenrant.com: An intriguing adventure of a preacher-turned-sleuth at the center. Compelling Western.

Rust

Western

Available on VOD: 18 november 2025

Director: Joel Souza

Cast: Alec Baldwin (The Departed, It's Complicated, BlacKkKlansman), Travis Fimmel (Dune - Prophecy, Kandahar), Frances Fisher (Titanic, Unforgiven), Patrick Scott McDermott (Goosebumps)

A 13-year-old boy left to fend for himself and his younger brother following their parents’ deaths in 1880s Kansas, goes on the run with his long-estranged grandfather after he’s sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher. As they head for New Mexico and the border, they are pursued by Woody Helm, US Marshal, sworn to bring them to justice, and by Fenton “Preacher” Lang, a brutal and utterly ruthless bounty hunter.

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• Film-authority.com: The striking appearance of the film is to be commended, with the dark pastoral-Gothic look of Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, Walter Hill’s The Long Riders, or even Clint Eastwood’s Pale Rider; long coats, sparse landscapes, tough times in America. Brutal, unsparing and unsentimental, Rust isn’t an easy film to watch.
• Telegraph.co.uk:  Ravishingly captured.
• Thetimes.com: What a strange, gloomy and deeply beautiful film this is, a testament to Halyna Hutchins’s talent.
• Independent.ie: Steadily performed and beautifully photographed, it’s a western of the dusty, old-school variety that, though marred by tragedy, deserves a look-in.
• Thecanadiancrew.com: he New Mexico vistas and late 1800s recreations are stellar. The muted tones add to murky morals at play. Alec Baldwin is excellent in this movie. Back doing drama after a long stint in comedy, game shows, and reality television, Baldwin does the slipping of the mask to perfection.
• Latimes.com: A testament to lives cut short, “Rust” is beautifully filmed and all the sadder for it.
• Sarahgvincentviews.com: Every exterior scene is like an answered prayer and elevates the movie.
• Collider.com: Complimenting this authentic look are some really great performances from the cast. This isn't some cute little cowboy village, but a nasty, unfair chapter of American history that offers no mercy, not even to children.
• Movieweb.com: Rust is a solid Western that's far more artistic, layered, and complex than its unfortunate production problems.