westerns

Annie, Get Your Gun

Annie, Get Your Gun

Women gunslingers engender justice in new fantasy Westerns from Charlaine Harris and Lyndsay Ely.

Faster than Fassbinder! An Interview with Filmmaker Michael Fredianelli

Faster than Fassbinder! An Interview with Filmmaker Michael Fredianelli

The prolific independent filmmaker Michael Fredianelli doesn't let the microbudget scale of his productions limit his imagination -- or his creations.

‘The Wolverine’ Is a Stranger in a Strange Land

‘The Wolverine’ Is a Stranger in a Strange Land

James Mangold's The Wolverine taps into Western tropes and Samurai aesthetics to deliver a more thoughtful, soulful comic book film… until the climax.

On the Trail of Classic Western Heroes with Silent Films ‘Just Pals’ and ‘The Calgary Stampede’

On the Trail of Classic Western Heroes with Silent Films ‘Just Pals’ and ‘The Calgary Stampede’

New organ scores help kick up some dust in these two reissues from Grapevine Video.

‘The Best of Richard Matheson’ Is Among the Best of Pop Culture

‘The Best of Richard Matheson’ Is Among the Best of Pop Culture

Richard Matheson's work has so permeated modern pop culture that it can be hard to find works not at least partially indebted to an idea of his or, as is more often the case, someone influenced by him.

Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story

Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story

Trace Adkins and company bring Western cosplay to the forefront in this 90-minute elegy to a once mighty genre.

Retro Future: Reviving ‘Have Gun — Will Travel’ and ‘The Rifleman’

Love-Drenched Gunfighters in ‘The Guns of Will Sonnett’

Leave Your Guns in Space, Doc: ‘Doctor Who: The Gunfighters’

Moral Ambiguity, Greyness and Imperfection in the Classic, ‘Once Upon a Time in the West’

“They’re All My Children”: An Interview with Ennio Morricone

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

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