Like the old American west itself, the glory days of the movie western are well behind us, but it is nevertheless enshrined in history as one of the most venerable of genres. The style and tropes of ...

There was a time when you couldn’t flip on the TV or buy a movie ticket without running into a cowboy. Westerns were everywhere, filling Saturday matinees at the local movie theater, dominating ...

The best revisionist Westerns take the classical Western themes and update them for modern times, taking a realistic look at ...

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Most Western movies look pretty good visually, but some go the extra mile, including classics like The Searchers and Once ...

Of the many genres in cinema, none is as distinctively American as the Western. Typically set in the American frontier during the mid to late 1800s, the Western is crucial to the very fabric of ...