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DVD Review: James Garner And John Sturges Tackle The Wyatt Earp Myth In HOUR OF THE GUN

James Garner is best known for his laidback, iconic anti-heroes with a comedic twist (see Maverick or The Rockford Files for examples). He ditches that persona in Hour Of The Gun, delivering a brutal performance as Wyatt Earp. John Sturges’ [...]

February 13, 2015

The First Look At Kurt Russell In Horror-Western BONE TOMAHAWK

We’ve finally got our first look at Kurt Russell in S.Craig Zahler’s western Bone Tomahawk thanks to EW. Russell hasn’t starred in a western since Tombstone, which was way back in 1993, although he’ll also be getting in the [...]

November 4, 2014

New Trailer For Tommy Lee Jones’ Western THE HOMESMAN

Tommy Lee Jones is carving out an interesting career in westerns. In the last ten years or so he has starred in Ron Howard’s The Missing, directed and starred in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and appeared in No Country For Old Men (a [...]

October 27, 2014

DVD Review: Anson Mount Saddles-Up For HELL ON WHEELS – The Complete Third Season

We live in a new Golden Age of television. It’s a time where narrative storytelling on the small screen is surpassing the quality of that on the big one. The focus on franchise moviemaking has seen good writing migrate to television, [...]

August 17, 2014

Blu-ray Review: John Wayne In Howard Hawks’ RED RIVER

Howard Hawks westerns are always about men. They deal with the complex relationship between them and how they exist in a world of difficulties. Red River is no different; it’s a sprawling epic tale starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift that [...]

October 12, 2013

DVD Review: Ed Harris, Jason Isaacs And January Jones In SWEET VENGEANCE

The western has had a rough journey over the last few years. The rocky terrain has seen highs like True Grit, Hatfield’s & McCoys and lows such as the execrable Jonah Hex. Sweet Vengeance (also known as Sweet Water) appears to have a strong [...]

June 3, 2013

New DJANGO UNCHAINED Poster: And Don Johnson As Big Daddy

Django Unchained: Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson…and Don Johnson. That’s the ticket bought right there. Don Johnson is the man, and it is good to see him getting the love on the latest [...]

November 12, 2012

DVD Review: Zombie Western EXIT HUMANITY

There has been a massive resurrection in the zombie movie over the last several years – the genre is at breaking point, straining under the weight of the undead. However, John Geddes’ Exit Humanity takes the zombie formula and mixes it with [...]

June 26, 2012

Blu-ray Review: Sam Shepard In Revisionist Western BLACKTHORN

Director Mateo Gil’s Blackthorn is a revisionist western starring Sam Shepard, that supposes that Butch Cassidy didn’t die in his infamous shootout with the Bolivian army (alongside The Sundance Kid) in 1908, but that he lived in the country [...]

June 14, 2012