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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...
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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...
At the end of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Senator Ransom Stoddard, played by Jimmy Stewart, is told the golden rule about the...
The Social Network Winklevii Armie Hammer hasn’t slowed down since his breakout performance in the David Fincher film. So far he’s signed on to...
Suddenly, we’re approaching Summer Movie Season, and the one film that I personally think is flying under the radar that feels like a big,...
One form of entertainment that is truly American is the Western. It portrays that wild, frontier attitude that drove Americans west in the 19th...
I’m just going to get this right out of the way so we can discuss real, important things here: Shirley Temple was a total...
This is the fictional story of nine strangers, picked to ride in a stagecoach, work together and have their lives filmed. To find out...
Growing up when I did didn’t exactly do much to instill any sort of appreciation or interest in the Western. As a kid my...