Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, an endlessly-in-the-works film that finally premiered on August 4, disappointed fans beca…
Farewell to Curly Bill Powers Boothe: 1948-2017.
On May 14, 2017, actor Powers Boothe died just short of his 69th birthday. A magnetic and commanding presence, he enjoye…
I Killed John Wayne Bruce Dern recalls the experience of shooting down the beloved icon in The Cowboys.
Who would’ve guessed that, in the last decade of his life, a lung lost to cancer, John “Duke” Wayne would star in a doze…
In Theaters: The Hero
Lee Hayden (played by Sam Elliott), once a Western movie icon, now uses his golden voice to narrate barbecue-sauce ads. …
The Screen’s Greatest Horse Stuntman And the comment that kept famed Westerns Director John Ford from hiring him again.
The most memorable action sequence in Stagecoach comes near the end of the 1939 film. Shortly after the river crossing, …
Slim Pickens A real cowboy who captured the hearts of America.
Show me a magazine cover with a pretty girl, a baby or a dog…and I’ll show you a magazine that sells,” publishing …
Rustled for Hollywood The never-before-published truth behind Francis the Talking Mule.
In the 1950s, Universal Pictures hit on an absurd premise that would delight millions and make millions: the Francis the…
The Son Rises on AMC A calculating pioneer patriarch shifts his family fortune from steers to crude in AMC’s newest Western.
On April 8, a new series, The Son, will premiere on AMC. Starring Pierce Brosnan, the four-time James Bond who rode West…
DVD Review: THE MARK OF ZORRO Kino Lorber, $29.95
DVD Review: THE MARK OF ZORRO (Kino Lorber; $29.95) In this Blu-ray release of the 1940 classic, Tyrone Power stars as …
Sink or Swim When shooting a movie scene becomes deadly. Stagecoach, 1939.
Nobody could overstate the impact of 1939’s Stagecoach on film in general and on the Western in particular. It rescued t…