Roy Rogers would have turned 100 on November 5, 2011. To pay special tribute to this milestone year, California’s Lone Pine Film Festival will host...
Roy Rogers Turns 100
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Henry Cabot Beck
Confronting the Fiddle Player: Did Rex Rideout Make it Out of Cowboys & Aliens Alive?
Rex Rideout is a multi-instrumentalist who travels the West with groups of varying sizes, playing historical music from the 19th century. In Cowboys...
The Legend of Hell’s Gate
How often can you find Doc Holliday, Quanah Parker and John Wilkes Booth in the same story? In The Legend of Hell’s Gate, actor, director and writer...
Tarantino’s “Southern” Western
Quentin Tarantino is making good on his long-standing promise to direct a Spaghetti Western. The script for Django Unchained has been delivered, and...
The Warrior’s Way
The Warrior’s Way is a cross between a Western and an epic Samurai tale, telling the story of the world’s greatest swordsman-assassin, Yang, the...
Rango
The pleasure of watching Rango at home, especially as this terrific-looking Blu-ray DVD, is catching all the sly asides, the throwaway lines and...
The “Heart” of Cowboys & Aliens
Mars needs cowgirls. Whether the aliens have much interest in deadly Daniel Craig or leathery old Harrison Ford has not been established, but...
Vera Cruz
Don’t bother getting the new Blu-ray of 1954’s Vera Cruz. Since it was the first movie to use SuperScope, an expanded 35mm process, that might...
The Comancheros
As a terrific documentary on this 50th anniversary Blu-ray edition of 1961’s The Comancheros tells us, John Wayne came out of the 1950s looking to...
The Cowboy from Quebec
“In all the top 10 lists of great cowboy actors, he’s never there, and it drives me crazy,” says Peter Ford of his father, Glenn. The fact is, he’s...
From Deadwood to Hollywood
Sopranos creator David Chase is working with HBO on a new miniseries, Ribbon of Dreams, about the early days of Hollywood. The two principal...
The Civil War
Michael Shaara’s novel The Killer Angels inspired Ken Burns to make his documentary, The Civil War. When Burns’s series first aired on PBS for five...