The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018 Joel & Ethan Coen)

Bruno Delbonnel joins the group with his wonderful low light offerings. Otherwise it's the usual Burwell, Jaynes, Zophres partnership, with production design by Jess Gonchor (Hail Caesar, Inside Llewyn Davis, True Grit, No Country for Old Men).

Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother Where Art Thou?) is the cheerful singing gunman of the title, which features some of the funniest moments.

James Franco attempts to hold up a bank 'Near Algodones', experiences savage Indian attack and is lynched twice. Stephen Root is the teller.

In perhaps the most dispensable (yet oddly haunting) story 'Meal Ticket' (like one of those 50s horror comics) Liam Neeson trades limbless actor Harry Melling (Harry Potter's Dudley Dursley) for a chicken.

Tom Waits is the prospector in 'All Gold Canyon', Sam Dillon the assailant. 'The Gal Who Got Rattled' features Bill Heck, Zoe Kazan and Grainger Hines and the ghostly finale 'The Mortal Remains' has Brendan Gleason, Jonjo O'Neill (wonderful), Saul Rubinek, Tyne Daly and Chelcie Ross. Love the gradual darkening in the carriage.

It was the first Coen Brothers film shot digitally, partly because being a Netflix non-theatrical release it would have been too expensive to do it the normal way. And Delbonnel had the experience with Darkest Hour.

Did notice references to John Ford, Leone and Shane. Writing is model of making left turns. Wild West depicted as seriously savage place. Also tear-inducingly funny.