BFI London Film Fest Review: Horror-Western 'Bone Tomahawk' Starring Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson & Richard Jenkins

Though it's unlikely to ever return to its peak popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, when dozens were released every year, the Western nevertheless refuses to go away entirely. Sometimes a year or two will go by without an attempt at revival, and you'll occasionally get a megaflop like "The Lone Ranger," but the genre's so steeped in Hollywood history that filmmakers will forever keep returning to it, sometimes with great success.

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It's been three years since Quentin Tarantino's smash hit "Django Unchained," and the end of 2015 suggests we might be in one of the more fertile periods for the Western since its golden age. TV shows like "Hell On Wheels" and "Longmire" continue to draw loyal audiences, while Tarantino returns to the genre at Christmas with "The Hateful Eight," just as his 'Django' star Leonardo DiCaprio gets back on the horse, so to speak, for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's...