When Joe and Tony Gayton, the brothers responsible for creating Hell on Wheels, pitched their series to cable station AMC, a Western wasn’t...
Train Keeps A’Rollin’
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Western Movies
MARY DORIA RUSSELL
Author of Doc, which Ron Howard will be filming for HBO. On Ron Howard’s HBO Project:Here’s a little Hollywood wisdom I’ve learned: it’s not a movie...
Luke Perry on Eastwood
Luke Perry has become a major star in a series of TV Westerns that feature Perry as John Goodnight, a 19th-century circuit judge. The first,...
Looking Ahead 2012
MOVIES & TV The Rifleman may be returning to the small screen with help from CBS and director Chris Columbus. This December, we’ll see how and...
Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood deserves all of the accolades he’s received for the movie Unforgiven, including a Best Picture Oscar and Golden Globe, but a brand...
Why Did Cowboys & Aliens Fail… Or did it?
The 2011 summer blockbuster film turned out to be one of the biggest disappointments, if you listen to Hollywood. With the brain trusts of Steven...
REX RIDEOUT
Making his movie debut as the cowboy fiddler in last year’s Cowboys & Aliens, Rex Rideout is a 19th-century music historian who can often be...
The Lone Rango
One film that touched everyone—from the kiddies to us grizzled veterans—was 2011’s Rango. We enjoyed it more because we understood all the inside...
Clint The Icon of a Generation
Clint Eastwood is a mystery. He’s been a cowboy, a cop, a National Geographic photojournalist, a clown, a honky-tonk singer, a jazz DJ and a...
Call of the Canyon
In 1906, novelist Zane Grey visited the Arizona Territory for the first time. The Southwestern landscape fired his imagination; after a few return...
1959’s No Name on the Bullet
About 30 years ago, my younger sister Pam had to write an essay on a “hero” for NYU. She chose Bruce Springsteen. I said, “I like Bruce, but he even...
The Bloody Benders
Scare master John Carpenter, who created the Halloween franchise, wants to make a picture about The Bloody Benders, a German family of serial...