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Written by Chris Condon Art by Jacob Phillips Published by Image Comics In the vast realm of comic book history, few narratives captivate...
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Written by Chris Condon Art by Jacob Phillips Published by Image Comics In the vast realm of comic book history, few narratives captivate...
In film criticism, we use “epic” as a shorthand for a long form film with a large cast and sprawling story, but the classical...
Along with 1883 and 1923, Lawmen: Bass Reeves is the third period western miniseries from Yellowstone creator Tyler Sheridan. The series was initially conceptualized...
“Failure can be forgiven but success will always be punished.” – Sergio Leone In 1966, Sergio Leone completed The Good, the Bad, and...
Written and Illustrated by Lucie Ebrey Published by Razorbill/Penguin-Random House The title of the new tween graphic novel, Cowgirls and Dinosaurs: Big Trouble...
“It gave back the confidence that the Western can be a great movie.” ––Bernardo Bertolucci, on the films of Sergio Leone I spent...
Produced by Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, Michael De Luca, Allison Dickey, John C. Reilly Screenplay by Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain Based on the novel...
It’s been over thirty years since Woody Harrelson first appeared as flakey bartender Woody Boyd on Cheers, a role which for many years seemed...
Review by Ben and Elizabeth Robbins Produced by Richard N. Gladstein, Shannon McIntosh, Stacey Sher Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino Starring Samuel L....
Written by Lily Fierro I really love westerns. They seem to always have a paradoxical moral simplicity and complexity. They almost always have a...
By Generoso Fierro By 1976, the mania surrounding the spaghetti western had all but died out. Due to the success of the Godfather films,...
Written by Christopher M The Weinstein Company via The Wrap has announced the production start on Quentin Tarantino’s 8th film The Hateful Eight has...
Sam Peckinpah had a knack for showing us what it was like at the end of the “Old West.” Most of his films tended...
I recently revisited Westworld (1973) a film that kind of scared the crap out of me as a kid, even in its television version. I...
Ron Moore, is headed to Hangtown. The Battlestar Galactica developer/executive producer and Caprica writer Matt Roberts have sold the Western pitch to ABC...
This week is a bit of a breach in protocol. So far I’ve tried to progress through Westerns in some pseudo-chronological order, lumping films...
Over the last few installments I’ve brought up the obvious influence that Sergio Leone and Kurosawa had on Quentin Tarantino. This week I use...
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is, besides The Searchers, the most epic and sweeping of the Westerns I have sat down with...
One of the most durable of all genres in American film, the Western has had a long and often complicated history as part of...
READ PART 1 HERE In Yojimbo, Kurosawa goes from borrowing visual cues from Ford and Westerns to straight up using the Western formula. Toshiro...
America’s own history doesn’t go back far enough for heroes in the legendary, Old World sense. We’re too young to have a King Arthur...
Like Westerns, Film Noir is a genre I have a flimsy familiarity with. At best my own viewing experience with the gritty, hard-boiled side...
When it was originally released, High Noon faced its fair share of controversy. Hitting theaters during the Red Scare and the Korean War, many...
It looks like Johnny Depp’s Tonto finally has a kemo sabe in director Gore Verbinski’s upcoming The Lone Ranger. Variety reports that Armie Hammer...