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

John Wayne is so embedded in American lore as a gunslinging Western hero, that anyone can imitate his wide drawl and bowlegged stance without ever having seen one of...

• September 9, 2013
• At Home, Western

Clint Eastwood movies have always been essential viewing at our house, but I remember thinking that Pale Rider was especially hot. I was only about nine when I saw...

• August 31, 2013
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Western

If I may be so bold as to quote myself, I believe I said that seeing all the corruption in Serpico made me want to go live in a...

• July 5, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Western

Clint Eastwood’s 1992 revisionist Western Unforgiven not only swept up major prizes, including Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Eastwood) and Supporting Actor (Gene Hackman), but it acknowledged what...

• July 2, 2013
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Western

As Hollywood continues to mine the vaults of our collective pop-culture past for new (old) ideas, relaunching The Lone Ranger probably didn’t sound like a bad idea: The Wild...

• April 22, 2013
• At Home, Western

When Tombstone came out, it was the battle of the Wyatt Earp movies, with Kevin Costner’s Wyatt Earp being released within a year of this one (as Hollywood is...

• February 3, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Western

As a devoted fan of Little House on the Prairie, I’m pretty much a sucker for any sort of family melodrama that takes place in frontier times.  Love’s Everlasting...

• September 26, 2012
• At Home, Drama, Romance, Western

The Horse Whisperer opens with a scene of cheerful tranquility as Grace and Judith (Scarlett Johannsen and Kate Bosworth) lead their horses out for a snowy morning ride. It...

• July 29, 2011
• Action, At Home, Science Fiction, Thriller, Western

If I’m being honest, this movie is sort of like a half-assed alien-invasion thriller combined with a half-assed cowboy shoot-‘em-up, and neither side really delivers the “omigoshWOW!” needed to...

• May 20, 2011
• At Home, Drama, Western

It is interesting to revisit a film at different points of your life. I originally saw The Misfits when I was 16, in the midst of my Marilyn Monroe...

• January 25, 2011
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Western

Dances With Wolves is a modern Hollywood epic at its best. Just like Titanic or Braveheart, the film is bloated and full of the ego of its director (in...

• October 27, 2008
• At Home, Western

All good things must come to an end, but after four hours, I still couldn’t get enough of Broken Trail. Set in 1897, this compelling mini-series follows Print Ritter...