The triumph of the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove is such that to once again name the awards and repeat the ratings and draw quotes from the universal...
“Everyone Stayed Home to Watch Gus Die”
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Henry Cabot Beck
Reach for the Sky
Reach for the Sky is currently shooting near Glen Rose, Texas. Producer Glenn Helm has brought aboard Alan Chan to direct the HD picture, so one can...
The Good, Bad, Ugly Comic?
Western movies these days are few and far between, but Western games and comic books continue to appear with some regularity. Movie heroes Zorro,...
Lonely Are The Brave
Jack Burns (Kirk Douglas) is the kind of cowboy that mamas are warned not to let their babies grow up to be. He has no respect for authority, and he...
Ken Burns’s Best Work Ever
Ken Burns is more than a chronicler of American history and culture. As early as 1981, when Burns presented his film on the history of the Brooklyn...
Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theater
Buyers of this DVD collection, which presents the first season of TV’s Zane Grey Theater, will find an essay I wrote sharing Zane Grey’s phenomenal...
Jonah Hex’s Gunspinner Extraordinaire
“Rocketshoes!” says Josh Brolin with a huge grin, as soon as I mention Joey Dillon’s name. “He’s unbelievable. He’s the fastest thing I’ve ever...
Spaghetti Western Returns
Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky is no stranger to Westerns; lines formed around the block to watch his psycho-surreal Spaghetti Western El...
Angel & the Badman Remake
As unlikely as it seems, a remake of the very terrific John Wayne Oater, Angel and the Badman, is due out in 2009, starring Lou Diamond Phillips...
No Country For Old Men
Watching No Country For Old Men once again, this time as a DVD, only serves to remind me how thoroughly terrific Joel & Ethan Coen are at mixing...
Circle The Wagons!
An interesting book, Circle the Wagons! is a deliberately controversial one, combining early Western movies with actual events in an effort to...
The Life and Legend of Hugh O’Brian
Hugh O’Brian is Wyatt Earp. By that I mean that in talking with O’Brian, one gets the sense that the actor is in many ways as contradictory as the...