Jane Got a Gun will star producer and actress Natalie Portman, who recently won an Academy Award for her role in Black Swan. This story centers on...
Natalie Portman’s New Western
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Henry Cabot Beck
A Black Cowboy Opera
The bounty hunter film, They Die By Dawn, is “set in 1890 with every single black actor in Hollywood, swagged out cowboy style,” says Jeymes Samuel,...
A Swarthout-Based Western
The Homesman will be Tommy Lee Jones’s next project, and, like in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Jones will act, produce and direct....
Feud-Mania
The dictionary defines a “feud” as a “long-running argument or fight between parties—often groups of people, especially families or clans.” This...
Cheyenne: The Complete Third Season
Cheyenne, as a series, didn’t exactly break new ground as the show progressed. It didn’t need to, because it had a perfect formula: stacks of...
Monogram Cowboy Collection, Vol. 2
Of the eight features in this Monogram B-Westerns collection, two are in color (Cinecolor), and they both star Rod Cameron, who might have reached a...
The Big Trail
The Big Trail, director Raoul Walsh’s epic covered wagon frontier Western, keeps getting better and better. Released in 1930, it was everything a...
Welcome to Hard Times / Day of the Evil Gun
Henry Fonda was rounding 60 when he started working in a handsome number of Westerns, particularly 1965’s The Rounders, directed by Burt Kennedy....
Gunfight at the Eco-Corral
One of the most interesting books published today is this analysis of the environment in Western cinema. Gunfight at the Eco-Corral, by Robin L....
Warner Bros. Theater Screenings
The new Warner Bros. Theater in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, in Washington, D.C., debuted this past February 3, with a...
Hollywood’s Honest Abe
The Western was in a holding pattern, for the most part, in 2011. We had Rango, which pulled out a shopping cart full of awards, including “Best...
Little Big Man
The Western was fair game in 1970, when the movie Little Big Man was released. Those were cynical times, and people were polarized—politically,...