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Kevin Costner Hates ‘Yellowstone’ November 12, 2024
On Sunday, Yellowstone finally returns, delivering the back half of its fifth and final season nearly two years after the season’s first half began to air. But all is not well in the land of the Duttons.Since its 2018 debut, Yellowstone—a sweeping fa...
'Yellowstone' Captures the True Mindset of America November 04, 2024
Yellowstone is the most popular TV show in America, but somehow also a well-kept secret. When the first episode of its penultimate season was shown on American television a couple of years ago, more than 12 million people watched it live. For context...
America’s Endless Horizons August 26, 2024
The first installment of Kevin Costner’s Western film series Horizon: An American Saga is an homage to America’s ceaseless drive and energy. Before the Civil War, in the opening scene, settlers of men, women and children encamped on an Arizona river...
Kevin Costner’s Post Apocalypse July 25, 2024
Before shooting wrapped on The Postman, Kevin Costner’s 1997 post-apocalyptic Western, Warner Bros bosses Terry Semel and Robert Daly visited the set. At one point the executives peeled away from Costner – the star, director, and producer of The Post...
The Wayward Conservative Fantasies of Kevin Costner July 23, 2024
The contradiction of Kevin Costner is that he’s a congenitally laid-back actor who’s at his most compelling when portraying characters in the throes of some deep, soul-shaking compulsion. Think of JFK’s crusading district attorney, Jim Garrison, who ...
From ‘Unforgiven’ to the ‘Horizon’ July 09, 2024
Look, I’m not going to lie: My favorite Fourth of July movie is Independence Day, the schlocky sci-fi actioner about America using its military and technological might to exit the post-Berlin Wall, pre-9/11 vacation from history, unite the world, and...
I (Barely) Survived ‘Horizon’ July 05, 2024
It’s been 550 days since a new episode of “Yellowstone” aired, which seems absurd for one of the most popular shows on television. But the behind-the-scenes drama since has been as fraught as the dynamics of the Dutton family, leading to the expulsio...
Kevin Costner’s News-Adjacent Ambitions July 05, 2024
Kevin Costner’s $100 million, three-hour Western Horizon: An American Saga, Chapter One has flopped. Yet there are parallel ventures on the Fox Nation subscription service — Who Is Kevin Costner? And Yellowstone 150 — that persist in promoting the le...
A Great Film that Reminds Us Why the Western Died July 03, 2024
Kevin Costner returns to the genre that won him his Best Director and Best Picture Oscars (1991, Dances with Wolves) with an insanely ambitious passion project in which he directs, produces, and stars—and into which he poured $50 million of his own m...
I’m Not Ready to Give Up on Kevin Costner’s 'Horizon' July 03, 2024
You have to respect Kevin Costner’s loyalty to the old-fashioned western. Since the earliest days of his career in Hollywood, the actor and director has done well by the genre (Silverado, Wyatt Earp, Open Range), and the genre has done well by him in...
Every Kevin Costner Movie Performance, Ranked July 02, 2024
There are some celebrities who so seem to represent American masculinity — well, straight, white American masculinity, anyway — that they feel carved out of granite and permanently decked out in blue jeans. Bruce Springsteen is one of those guys, and...
Kevin Costner’s “Horizon” Goes West but Gets Nowhere July 01, 2024
Westerns are an inherently political genre, for the obvious reason that they depict (or distort or interrogate) American history. But they are also political in that they show the birth of the polis itself—the institutions of modern urban society, wi...
Inside Kevin Costner’s $38 Million 'Horizon' Gamble May 21, 2024
Sometimes Kevin Costner imagines that he’s watching himself in a film about Kevin Costner. He pictures himself in a theater; it’s dark and he’s gazing at himself in the same way we have over the years, rooting for him to succeed. In times of embattle...
