Frank Lovece

Kiefer Sutherland and dad Donald are in top form playing father and son in an otherwise predictable western filled with silent-movie villainy and tropes already discarded by 1950s films in the genre.

An old headline trope, long ago appropriated by comic-book fans, goes: "Pow! Bam! Comics Just Aren't Just for Kids Anymore!"

A haunted Civil War veteran in the 1870s pursues raiders he says took his wife, opening a path to a figurative Hell in director Lawrence Roeck's powerful and beautifully shot, if emotionally distant, second feature.

You might have heard: There's a new 'Star Wars' movie coming out. With theatres preparing for what many predict might be cinema's biggest domestic opening—a $185-$200 million range that could top the $208.8 million of June's 'Jurassic World'—and a predicted domestic total of $730 million to $1 billion, audiences and analysts are expecting less a movie than a second coming.