Western Movies Archives

DVD REVIEW: Traveltalks

by Henry C. Parke | Nov 8, 2016

Nothing whisks a person away from his troubles more than a color-drenched visit to the far corners of the nation and the globe. During the Great...

Westworld Reborn

by Henry C. Parke | Nov 3, 2016

When, in 1973, MGM, once the titan of Hollywood studios, found itself on the ropes after a string of flops, a tiny film saved the studio from...

Less than Magnificent

by Henry C. Parke | Oct 28, 2016

Remaking a classic movie is daring, and Director Antoine Fuqua made the challenge a double dare by remaking two: 1960’s The Magnificent Seven and...

Impactful Western Short Film, Borrowed Time

by Rhiannon Deremo | Oct 27, 2016

A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories come...

DVD Review: The Girl of the Golden West

by Henry C. Parke | Sep 16, 2016

In 1938, theatre impresario David Belasco’s melodrama became a delightful Western operetta, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The only...

A Legendary Life

by Stuart Rosebrook | Aug 1, 2016

The mythic history of the American West is veiled in the mysterious mists of time like the fog-shrouded British legends of King Arthur, Beowulf and...

Ford Set the Bar High

by Henry C. Parke | Jun 28, 2016

The Buffalo Soldier and his crucial role in the post-Civil War West went unacknowledged for so long in history annals that his story was rarely told...

The Soul of Django Unchained

by C. Courtney Joyner | Nov 5, 2012

Quentin Tarantino has called his upcoming film Django Unchained a “Southern,” as it takes place in the South, moments before the first shots were...

The Stickler

by Bill Markley | Nov 5, 2012

“Did you sketch this picture of my daughter?” Cindy Costner, Kevin’s wife at the time, asked a Union soldier during a lull in the Dances With Wolves...