• February 26, 2024
• Moviepie Musings, Western

After spending several seasons in the New West of the mega-hit series Yellowstone, Kevin Costner dropped out to return to filmmaking… more specifically a project that has been simmering...

• November 5, 2020
• At Home, Drama, Western

At first Margaret and George Blackledge might be confused for Clark Kent’s parents. After all, they are played by Diane Lane and Kevin Costner, both looking comfortably weathered like...

• May 14, 2019
• At Home, Drama, Western

The opening sequence of The Sisters Brothers is visually striking in what you cannot see. In the distance, flashes of gunfire light up complete darkness. You make out that...

• September 27, 2018
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Western

Selleck plays an American cowboy named Matthew Quigley who shows up on the shores of rough and tumble Wild West-era Australia. An Australian rancher (played by go-to bad guy...

• January 5, 2018
• At Home, Drama, Western

It is 1892 New Mexico, and the violence and genocide that has shaped the Europeans’ settlement in the American West is winding down. Hostiles’ difficult opening scene shows a...

• September 15, 2017
• At Home, Comedy, Western

El Dorado seems somehow reminiscent of the era when people would catch double-features at the local theater and spend almost an entire day at the movies. One of the...

• September 20, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Family, Television, Western

I remember an entire Sunday spent waiting for the airing of Look Back to Yesterday. I was six and must have reminded my parents that we’d be watching it...

• December 27, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Western

Oh, man, I loved The Man From Snowy River when it first came out in the 80s. I wasn’t really a horse girl, but I was obsessed with Australia....

• October 1, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Western

If you’re inclined to feel put off by a film called Let God, perhaps you’d feel better about watching something called The Trail. One sounds specifically aimed at Christian...

• July 25, 2014
• At Home, Drama, Western

Out in the Old West, there was a disproportionate amount of men to women. The men came seeking adventure and fortune, and the few women that followed them were...

• December 31, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Romance, Western

It is 1900, Nome, Alaska, where a gold rush is in full swing. Sam McCord (John Wayne) and his buddy George Pratt (Stewart Granger) have done just fine (which...

• October 25, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Western

Mush-mouthed and cantankerous, Rooster Cogburn has little time for fools, but recognizes a tough character when he sees one. When 14-year-old headstrong Mattie Ross (newcomer Hailee Steinfeld) approaches him...