Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar is not your typical Western. Sure, it’s got gunslingers and horses, red rocks…
Year of the Month: Miller on Vera Cruz
A group of rough men rides into a small Mexican town. They stop another group…
Buchanan Rides Alone: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on Budd Boetticher’s Existential Hangout Western
The issue with writing about westerns is that there’s just so many of them: John…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on the Westerns of 1962
In 1962 many viewers thought that Westerns, and the Hollywood studios, were in decline. The…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Red River
SPOILERS: The following review makes plenty of references to this film’s ending and plot developments…
Sixty Years Later, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’s Anti-Capitalist Values Haven’t Aged a Day by Joey Lee (Year of the Month)
Is it just me or did The Treasure of the Sierra Madre age shockingly well?…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
If movies were geometry, Westerns would be vectors, moving in a trajectory forever into the…
Year Of The Month – The Wild Bunch
The people who believe that Peckinpah and The Wild Bunch are exclusively pro-violence, that the…
Revitalizing Westerns
I was reading a book this week that I’ve read many times before. It’s called…
Year of the Month: Dylan “Balthazar Bee” Groves on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
SPOILERS keep fallin’ on your head. How you respond to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance…