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...
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Western Movies
Less than Magnificent
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
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
In 1938, theatre impresario David Belasco’s melodrama became a delightful Western operetta, starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The only...
A Legendary Life
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
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
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
“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...
Hardin Biopic
“We plan on shooting this epic, never-before-told story about the life of John Wesley Hardin,” says Miguel Corona, an associate producer of the...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The best DVD edition of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is the “Ultimate Collector’s Edition” from 20th Century Fox. We love it for the “making...
The Iconic Duo
The last great year for Western movies was 1969, which saw the release of three classics: The Wild Bunch, True Grit and Butch Cassidy and the...
8 Classic Westerns
That the train would inspire the world’s first narrative film, Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 Western The Great Train Robbery, makes complete sense to us....