western

Behind The Scenes Paul Newman & Robert Redford On The Set Of BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID

George Roy Hill’s Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid gave the western genre a breath of fresh air when it was released back in 1969. Along with The Graduate (1967), Bonnie And Clyde (1967) and Easy Rider (1969), the film helped to point [...]

July 20, 2022

Trailer & Poster: New Western MURDER AT YELLOWSTONE CITY Starring Gabriel Byrne, Thomas Jane & Richard Dreyfuss

With a cast that includes Gabriel Byrne, Thomas Jane and Richard Dreyfuss – you can be sure that Movies In Focus is interested in Murder At Yellowstone City. Directed by Richard Gray and written by Eric Belgau, the western appears to have [...]

May 26, 2022

Behind The Scenes: John Wayne, James Caan & Robert Mitchum On The Set Of EL DORADO

The great Howard Hawks‘ 1966 western, El Dorado has one of the great tough guy casts of the 1960s. Starring John Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan, the film is a well crafted western with great turns from the three lead actors. Wayne plays [...]

March 26, 2022

Uncovering Curiosities: Peter Fonda’s THE HIRED HAND

Easy Rider helped change the mechanics of Hollywood when it was released in 1969. Both Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda were given carte blanche by Universal Pictures to produce whatever they wanted, with Hopper going on to produce the ill-fated The [...]

February 11, 2022

Kevin Costner To Star In & Direct The Western HORIZON

It looks like the great Kevin Costner is going to use the massive success of television’s Yellowstone to get a long-gestating passion project off the ground. Costner has announced that he’ll direct, star in, produce and finance the [...]

January 29, 2022

Kevin Costner – The Last Of The Hollywood Cowboys

Born on the 18 January, 1955, Kevin Costner was an avid film fan who up in California. Fascinated by epic westerns such as Red River and How the West Was Won, he dreamed of being cowboy (a dream that would be fulfilled many years later). Following [...]

January 18, 2022

Behind The Scenes: John Ford, Richard Widmark & John Wayne On The Set Of THE ALAMO

A long gestating passion project, John Wayne finally brought his film charting the 1836 battle at The Alamo to the screen in 1960. Wayne produced, directed and starred in the epic, even investing millions of his own money into the production. [...]

December 28, 2021

Behind The Scenes: John Wayne & John Ford On The Set Of THE SEARCHERS

Has there ever been filmmaking duo quite like John Wayne and John Ford? You could potentially argue a few pairings – but the Wayne and Ford partnership delivered 14 films between 1939 and 1963, leading to some of the best work of their [...]

December 9, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: John Sturges’ HOUR OF THE GUN

John Sturges’ 1967 western, Hour Of The Gun is not only a fine example of the genre, but it’s also one of the finest films focusing on the legendary lawman, Wyatt Earp. Sturges’ film is a pseudo-sequel to his 1957 film, Gunfight At [...]

November 20, 2021

Blu-ray Review: PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND Starring Nicolas Cage Is As Crazy As It Is Disappointing

Much like Nicolas Cage’s recent theme-park horror Willy’s Wonderland, Prisoners Of The Ghostland is a film with a cool sounding premise (and an excellent trailer) which is let down by its poor execution. Cage himself [...]

November 9, 2021

Behind The Scenes: John Wayne, Clint Eastwood & Don Siegel On The Set Of THE SHOOTIST

Directed by Don Siegel, The Shootist would become the legendary John Wayne‘s final film. The 1976 release sees Wayne play J.B. Books, an ageing gunfighter who is dying of cancer. Wayne would pass away from stomach cancer in June 1979, just [...]

October 17, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Brent Christy’s THE WARRANT

The general belief is that the western is dead. Modern audiences haven’t embraced the genre in a long time and over the last decade or so there have been few big budget attempts at bringing the ‘Oater’ back to the masses. However, away [...]

September 25, 2021

Review: PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND With Nicolas Cage Is Nuts – In More Ways Than One

Please be aware that this review of Prisoners Of The Ghostland contains spoilers. Nicolas Cage himself has described Prisoners Of The Ghostland as ‘the wildest’ movie he’s ever made and that’s possibly very true – [...]

September 19, 2021

Behind The Scenes: James Stewart, John Ford & John Wayne On The Set Of THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE

There are westerns and then there are John Ford westerns. The master of the genre, Ford’s films may have been set in the past, but they created a fictional Americana which stills echoes through the country’s culture today. [...]

September 1, 2021

Trailer & Poster For Western APACHE JUNCTION Starring Stuart Townsend, Trace Adkins & Thomas Jane

A western starring the mighty Thomas Jane. That’s all I need to know going into Apache Junction. The film from writer/director Jim Lee also stars Stuart Townsend, Trace Adkins, Scout Taylor-Compton, Ed Morrone and Victoria Pratt. Apache [...]

August 27, 2021

Teaser Trailer: Jane Campion’s THE POWER OF THE DOG Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons & Kodi Smit-McPhee

This teaser trailer for Jane Campion‘s The Power Of The Dog is a well cut mood piece (shame about the film’s terrible title). It doesn’t give much of the plot away, but it does pull you in with intrigue – which is what a [...]

August 26, 2021

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