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James Paxton and Malcom McDowell in Last Train to Fortune.

Podcast Episode 115: Adam Rifkin & James Paxton Discuss LAST TRAIN TO FORTUNE

Director Adam Rifkin and actor James Paxton join this episode of the Movies in Focus podcast to talk about their new film, Last Train To Fortune. Also starring Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, Bernadette Peters and Laura Marano, Rifkin’s [...]

September 14, 2026

Podcast Episode 113: Filmmaker Robert Gamperl On Making Short Films & The Western Genre

Filmmaker Robert Gamperl joins this episode of the Movies In Focus podcast to talk about his enigmatic western short films, Darlin and Stubborn. A former football player (or soccer player, if you’re that way inclined) and a very talented film [...]

August 21, 2026

Podcast Episode 111: Sean Rowe On Music, Songwriting & FRONTIER CRUCIBLE

Singer-songwriter Sean Rowe joins this 111th episode of the Movies In Focus podcast. Rowe wrote the songs on the soundtrack to Travis Mills’ excellent 2025 western, Frontier Crucible – and these punctuate the film as transitional pieces, [...]

July 29, 2026

The cast of the horror westerm The Wolf and The Lamb

Podcast Episode 100: Cassandra Scerbo, Adrianne Palicki, Zach McGowan, James Landry Hébert On THE WOLF AND THE LAMB

Michael Schilf’s The Wolf And The Lamb is a real curio of a western-horror hybrid with a stacked cast that includes Cassandra Scerbo, Adrianne Palicki, Zach McGowan, James Landry Hébert, Q’orianka Kilcher and Clint Howard. A strange [...]

April 29, 2026

Review: The New 4K Arrow Films Release Of SOLDIER Really Hits The Mark

Some films just aren’t appreciated in their time. For whatever reason – be that marketing, a poor release date or a million other factors – some films just don’t connect with an audience when they first come out. However, [...]

April 19, 2026

Podcast Episode 95: Aaron Eckhart & Jesse V. Johnson Discuss THIEVES HIGHWAY

Jesse V. Johnson’s Thieves Highway is a modern day western about cattle rustling, that sees Aaron Echkart’s cow cop tracking down a a bunch of seriously bad hombres. Written by Travis Mills – the director of the recent Frontier Crucible [...]

December 22, 2025

Review: Thomas Jane & Armie Hammer Are Outlaws In Travis Mills’ Brutal Western FRONTIER CRUCIBLE

The western is the genre that anchors American cinema. Of course there have been are many genres, but the western managed to create a certain mythos. Good versus evil, black hats versus white hats, Cowboys and Indians – there was an apparent [...]

December 1, 2025

Review: Pierce Brosnan & Samuel L. Jackson Face Off In The Gritty Western THE UNHOLY TRINITY

Pierce Brosnan and Samuel L. Jackson make for an intriguing pairing in Richard Gray’s gritty western, The Unholy Trinity. It’s an entertaining entry into the genre, and while it doesn’t break a whole lot of new ground, there is enjoyment to be [...]

July 22, 2025

Podcast Episode 63: At The Flicks Podcast’s Jeff & Graham On Kevin Costner’s HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA

On this episode, Jeff Downes and Graham O’Dwyer from the brilliant At The Flicks podcast discuss Kevin Costner’s western epic, Horizon: An American Saga (read the review) We’ll be putting our collective expertise to work as we [...]

July 18, 2024

Behind The Scenes: John Ford & James Stewart On The Set Of TWO RODE TOGETHER

Director John Ford revisited the same territory as his 1956 film, The Searchers for Two Rode Together. This 1961 western sees James Stewart and Richard Widmark go in search of Comanche captives, but it’s their chemistry that really makes this [...]

July 14, 2024

Noteboook Reviews: THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES

Clint Eastwood – 1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales is a truly enjoyable western with a very good performance central from Clint Eastwood. The direction may lack visual verve, but it’s still well constructed with plenty of humour sprinkled [...]

July 6, 2024

Review: Kevin Costner’s HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA – CHAPTER 1 Is A Bold & Epic Western

Kevin Costner’s legacy will always be tied to the western. From his breakout big screen success in Lawrence Kasdan’s Silverado, through to Dances With Wolves, Wyatt Earp, Open Range and television’s Hatfields and McCoys and Yellowstone, he has [...]

July 2, 2024

Review: SUNRISE Is A Surprising Supernatural Thriller

We go into films with certain expectations. We imagine what a film will be like, based on a title, a logline, a poster or a trailer. I went into Andrew Baird’s Sunrise with a certain idea of what I thought I was getting. I expected a vampire [...]

February 17, 2024

Kevin Costner Rides Again! Release Date & Teaser For HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA

It’s official – Kevin Costner‘s Horizon: An American Saga is now the most anticipated movie event of 2024. Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1 gets a theatrical release on June 28, 2024, and then two months later, Horizon: An [...]

October 7, 2023

Review: Paul W.S. Anderson’s Sci-Fi Actioner SOLDIER Finally Deserves Reappraisal

Paul W.S. Anderson’s $60 million sci-fi actioner, Soldier fizzled on its release in 1998, grossing just $14.5 million at the U.S. box office. It also faced the indignity of being dumped straight to DVD/video in the U.K., where (at the time) it [...]

June 25, 2023

Review: Neal McDonough Stars In Neo-Western BOON

Neal McDonough is someone who steals scenes as a supporting actor in big-budget films (Minority Report) and popular television shows (Yellowstone). However, away from delivering first-rate support, McDonough also gets to prove his leading man bone [...]

May 29, 2023

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

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