Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether you're staying at
Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether you're staying at
The product of two brothers, filmmakers and Texans, “No Man’s Land” is an earnest attempt to reverse the stereotyped narrative of illegal immigration into America instead, the white man is the one who crosses the border illegally.
Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether you're staying at
Brothers Conor and Jake Allyn team up for a bleary-eyed attempt to subvert the typical immigrant story.
Credit: IFC Films Published: 6:52 PM CST January 21, 2021 Updated: 6:58 PM CST January 21, 2021
Jackson Greer is both a fish out of water and a man out of time in Conor Allyn’s contemporary Western “No Man’s Land,” although you wouldn’t know it by the way Jake Allyn’s handsome Texas rancher reckons with having killed a migrant boy in the heat of confrontation by cheerily swigging beers at a Mexico bar. And what about his brother, who was stabbed in the chaos and is knocking on death’s door? No matter: Jackson’s too busy eyeing the daughter of a welcoming Mexican family before the banjo thrums to introduce another treacle life-on-the-range montage. But wait.mustn’t he hurry to join the Yankees, who are about to sign him to their organization? Perhaps not! In an unintentionally hilarious payoff (“payoff” here being stretched