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Message: [QUOTE="storrsroars, post: 4317497, member: 2500"] So I checked to see what Cusack's been doing lately and came across 2019's [B]Never Grow Old[/B] (Prime), where he plays an unscrupulous villain who visits an ultra-conservative frontier town on the California Trail in the 1840s and decides to provide vice to satisfy pent-up demand and make the town a popular spot for those heading to California. I'd never heard of the film and it did nothing at the box office either in the US or globally, but it earned very positive reviews from critics and mostly positive from the public (who apparently only saw it on streaming services since nobody bought tickets). It's a cinematic beauty in how it was filmed and the attention to detail on life in the Old West (handhewn lumber, mud, sparse furnishings, dirty clothes & faces, etc.) as well as the lighting, which is often just faces in darkness. Cusack is the bigger name and seems to enjoy taking on a non-traditional role for him, but it's really Emile Hirsch's film as an undertaker who's taken a Faustian bargain by staying in town with his family as the more people Cusack & crew kill, the more Hirsch's business profits. It's slow-moving, but worth the effort as it's not overly long and really one of the best Westerns to come out this century (not that there are many). And a mining camp near Galway, Ireland does a terrific job of standing in for soggy Oregon. Maybe it's the start of a new genre of potato westerns ;-) [/QUOTE]