One of the best Western movies of the past 10 years is on TV tonight

Holding a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score, the film stars a major Irish actor.

The feature debut of writer-director John Maclean (who helmed last year's Tornado), the film is set at the end of the 19th century in the Old West.

It follows a 16-year-old Scotsman named Jay (Oscar-nominee Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog), who travels to the American frontier in search of Rose (Caren Pistorius, Unhinged), the girl he loved back home.

Along the journey, Jay meets Silas (Fassbender), an Irish bounty hunter whom the teen subsequently hires for protection.

Slow West Trailer

It isn't long, however, before the pair stumble into trouble and find themselves hotly pursued by a gang of outlaws (led by Ben Mendelsohn, Animal Kingdom).

An underseen gem that is only 84 minutes in length, Slow West is full of the gorgeous vistas, cool characters and action that viewers would expect from a classic Western.

Without spoiling, however, the more the movie plays out, the more it cleverly subverts audiences' expectations of the genre, resulting in a film that puts a fresh spin on an old tale.

Slow West is airing on TV tonight/tomorrow morning on Film4 at 2.20am.

The Western is also now streaming for free on Rakuten TV and will be available to watch on Channel 4's website from Saturday, 31 January.

For JOE's list of the other movies on TV tonight, click here.

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