By the time you read this, South Korean filmmaker Ji-woon Kim’s Mongolian-Steppes Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad, the Weird will have been...
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In The Works
Iron Man Plays Gunslinger?
Word is out that Robert Downey Jr., fresh from his success as Tony Stark in the summer blockbuster Iron Man, may be cast in the Brian Grazer/Ron...
Wild West History Sleuths
The History Detectives’ upcoming season features several episodes of interest to readers of True West. The June 30, 2008, show (and these are...
The Road to McCarthy
Even though The Road isn't a Western in the traditional sense, many feel that the post-apocalyptic genre and the Western are two sides of the same...
Ford at Fox at Last
I promised you an update on Ford at Fox, and here it is. Fox has packaged 24 of the silents and talkies John Ford directed for Fox, where he worked...
Searchers 2.0
Mel (Del Zamora) and Fred (Ed Pansullo) have it in for Fritz Frobisher (Sy Richardson) who they’ve never forgiven for his unkind efforts to make the...
A Hex Upon You
DC comic hero Jonah Hex is going to hit the big screen in his current Horror-Western incarnation, which means he’ll be fighting demons or zombies or...
Appa-palooza
Appaloosa wasn’t Robert B. Parker’s first Western; that honor goes to Gunman’s Rhapsody, his 2001 novel about Wyatt Earp and Tombstone. Yet Parker...
The Comic Named Man With No Name
Yes, the character Clint Eastwood played in the most famous and successful of all Spaghetti Westerns, Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars...
Supernatural Snipes
Gallow Walker, a supernatural Western by Intandem Films, stars Wesley Snipes as a gunfighter who carries a curse from his ex-nun mom. Apparently...
Ford at Fox
The rumors are in the whispering stage, but it’s possible that by the time you read this, Fox Home Video will have officially announced that it will...
Cowboys & Aliens
What makes the graphic novel and comic series Cowboys & Aliens particularly good is the way it unites Apaches and cowboys to fight a supertech...