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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Coen Brothers latest film celebrates the Western with their famous brand of dark humor.
The new Netflix Western anthology film from Joel and Ethan Coen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, is the best Western comed…
Best of the West 2019: Western Movies The Future is Female? In Westerns, the future is here!
Ever since The Virginian, Owen Wister’s genre-defining Western novel, female characters have traditionally been portraye…
The Man Who Redeemed The Hamer Name Screenwriter John Fusco makes good on his pledge to set the record straight on the takedown of Bonnie & Clyde.
The story of The Highwaymen, the new Depression-era Western from Netflix, has been a thirty-year obsession for author Jo…
More than Animal House Before his memorable role as Otter the ladies man, Tim Matheson launched his career in Westerns.
Despite 183 acting credits, two Emmy nominations and no signs of slowing down, the suave and funny actor Tim Matheson w…
DVD Review: Dawson City Duo A perfect pairing: two movies set in the Klondike Gold Rush town of Dawson City!
Those Redheads from Seattle (Kino Lorber; $19.95); Dawson City: Frozen Time (Kino Lorber; $29.95 and pictured above). A …
DVD Review: The Hanging Tree
“Sluice robber!” With that bellow, and a well-aimed shot, Frenchy (Karl Malden) and a Montana boomtown mob take after th…
Sitting Bull’s Gal Was Caroline Weldon a heroine or the Victorian “Hanoi Jane?”
The primary job of the biographical Western Woman Walks Ahead, starring Jessica Chastain, Michael Greyeyes and Sam Rockw…
DVD Review: Black Jack & The Belle Starr Story These films pack a punch!
There is no honor among thieves in the first Oater, 1968’s Black Jack, shot in Spain and Israel. After a fight over a ro…
Still Blasting Away The Rifleman turns 60 years old.
Six decades ago this September 30, a Western series premiered, starring a ballplayer-turned-actor and a one-season Mouse…