After years on a starvation diet of barely one movie per year, Westerns fans face a feast of entertainment unseen since the early 1960s. While this...
Indie Westerns Lead the Way
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Henry C. Parke
Best of the West 2016: Western Movies DVDs & TV Shows
As this special issue honors the best pictures of cowboys, it certainly seems fitting that we also honor the best Cowboy Pictures, those movies that...
The Highest Peak
On the eve of the release of The Revenant, inspired by the true story of Hugh Glass’s fight for life, the film rights to the character of Grizzly...
The Australian Jesse James
Can a film be a Western if the story takes place on the other side of the globe? Writer-Director Matthew Holmes makes a convincing case. “In the...
Robin Hood of El Dorado
The Oscar-winning Cisco Kid, Warner Baxter, stars as farmer-turned-bandit Joaquin Murrieta, in 1936’s Robin Hood of El Dorado. Though MGM sold the...
Wanda the Wonderful
Carolyn McCartney’s documentary about her grandmother, sharpshooter Wanda Savage, is a mind-boggling pleasure. Part Chickasaw and born to a family...
Longmire’s Vengeance Ride
When the final episode of A&E’s Longmire, season three, came to a close, audiences were left with some tantalizing questions: Now that Walt...
Workin’ on the Railroad
Fans of AMC’s Hell on Wheels anticipate the driving of the Golden Spike the same way Dracula anticipated the driving of the wooden one: closure is...
Workin’ on the Railroad
Fans of AMC’s Hell on Wheels anticipate the driving of the Golden Spike the same way Dracula anticipated the driving of the wooden one: closure is...
Bronco: Final Season
Says the theme, “Once any girl has kissed him twice she’s dreaming of shoes and rice.” In the fourth and final season of Bronco, Ty Hardin’s Bronco...
Bronco: Final Season
Says the theme, “Once any girl has kissed him twice she’s dreaming of shoes and rice.” In the fourth and final season of Bronco, Ty Hardin’s Bronco...
A Quarter-Century Tribute
Every first-time movie director thinks he is making the next Citizen Kane. Few are correct. But director and star Kevin Costner did something his...