Budd Boetticher’s ‘Ranown Westerns’ Are Complex and Ambiguous
The heroes and villains in Bud Boetticher’s Ranown Westerns are less mighty opposites than mighty complements.
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The Strong Silent Type: Tom Mix, His Hat and His Horse
Silent westerns star Tom Mix – with his ten-gallon hat and his horse, Tony the Wonder – shows off stunt work in Sky High and spoofs the genre in The Big Diamond Robbery.
Annie, Get Your Gun
Women gunslingers engender justice in new fantasy Westerns from Charlaine Harris and Lyndsay Ely.
Faster than Fassbinder! An Interview with Filmmaker Michael Fredianelli
Prolific independent filmmaker Michael Fredianelli doesn’t let the micro-budget scale of his productions limit his imagination or his creations.
‘The Wolverine’ Is a Stranger in a Strange Land
James Mangold's The Wolverine taps into Western tropes and Samurai aesthetics to deliver a more thoughtful, soulful comic book film… until the climax.
On the Trail of Classic Western Heroes with Silent Films ‘Just Pals’ and ‘The Calgary Stampede’
New organ scores help kick up some dust in these two reissues from Grapevine Video.
‘The Best of Richard Matheson’ Is Among the Best of Pop Culture
Richard Matheson's work has so permeated modern pop culture that it can be hard to find works not at least partially indebted to an idea of his or, as is more often the case, someone influenced by him.
Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story
Trace Adkins and company bring Western cosplay to the forefront in this 90-minute elegy to a once mighty genre.