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Kevin Costner The award-winning actor, director and producer reflects on Silverado, Yellowstone, his new Netflix series The Highwaymen, and on acting and his love of the western.
Back in 1989, when Life Magazine asked Hollywood legends like James Stewart, Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland to pick …
Cowboy Pens Best Rodeo Movie Ever Made Jeb Rosebrook’s highly personal memoir of the writing and producing of the Sam Peckinpah and Steve McQueen movie Junior Bonner recounts the special relationship between the historic Arizona city and its residents in the summer of 1971.
Prescott, Arizona, has been a center of Cowboy Culture since 1888, when civic-minded merchants first posted cash prizes …
Fire Engulfs Paramount Western Ranch Despite the terrible loss to movie and television history, local agencies and studios have pledged to rebuild.
The cost in human life and property from the fires that blazed through California in November 2018 cannot yet be calcula…
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…
Hollywood’s Six-gun Fakery “Movie magic” tricks saved time, training and production costs, helping filmmakers keep the action fast and furious.
If you’re an Old West gun buff, and enjoy Western flicks from the Golden Age of Hollywood films, roughly 1930 through th…
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…
Dead On Arrival
In the opening sequence of the classic Western One Upon A Time In The West there are three gunmen who show up at the tra…
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…