John Ford and John Wayne’s classic Western film changed the course of cinema history.
Stagecoach – The Legend At 80
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Western Movies
More than Animal House
Despite 183 acting credits, two Emmy nominations and no signs of slowing down, the suave and funny actor Tim Matheson will be forever remembered as...
DVD Review: Dawson City Duo
Those Redheads from Seattle (Kino Lorber; $19.95); Dawson City: Frozen Time (Kino Lorber; $29.95 and pictured above). A perfect pairing: two movies...
A Bad Bad Man
Scott Martin has been cautiously optimistic about the future of Western films: “Until this resurgence, there hasn’t been the appetite for them. But...
The Soul of Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino has called his upcoming film Django Unchained a “Southern,” as it takes place in the South, moments before the first shots were...
The Stickler
“Did you sketch this picture of my daughter?” Cindy Costner, Kevin’s wife at the time, asked a Union soldier during a lull in the Dances With Wolves...
The Iconic Duo
The last great year for Western movies was 1969, which saw the release of three classics: The Wild Bunch, True Grit and Butch Cassidy and the...
8 Classic Westerns
That the train would inspire the world’s first narrative film, Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 Western The Great Train Robbery, makes complete sense to us....
Train Keeps A’Rollin’
When Joe and Tony Gayton, the brothers responsible for creating Hell on Wheels, pitched their series to cable station AMC, a Western wasn’t...
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,...
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...