Speaking of standards, James Donovan’s 2008 effort on the most famous Indian fight in U.S. history is one. If you missed his A Terrible Glory:...
Everyone’s heard the iconic children’s tale about the “little engine that could.” But few realize a real-life version exists. Call it the “movie...
CUSTER SURVIVOR: Sergeant August Finckle, Company C, 7th Cavalry, died at the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876—or didn’t, if his real name was Frank...
Back in 1992, Fred Nolan produced one of the standards of Western history. The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History was the most complete look...
Cem Yilmaz is a major celebrity in Turkey, where he writes and acts in comedies that are apparently similar to Mel Brooks’s. (His Science Fiction...
Sweetgrass, which opened in January at the Film Forum in New York, has gained universal praise as not only one of the finest new documentaries, but,...
Canadian Paul Gross is an actor, director, songwriter, producer and screenwriter, but Americans will recognize him primarily as Darryl Van Horne in...
Laurie Powers is a Los Angeles-based writer who has a deep interest in Westerns and Pulp Fiction, which makes sense since her grandfather was Paul...
Gammons Gulch is not entirely real; movie sets generally aren’t, but this collection of buildings and props, encompassing a chunk of American myth...
Encore’s Westerns Channel has announced that, beginning in 2010, the channel will be broadcasting a new batch of vintage TV Westerns, including...
The complete title of Paul Green’s book is Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics,...
This year’s truth-in-advertising award ought to be given to VCI for its DVD series of “Darn Good Westerns.” You’ll find no shouting and no lurid...