The Magnificent Seven (2016)
The Magnificent Seven is a remake of a classic Western of the same name from 1960, which itself is a remake of a classic samurai masterpiece, The Seven Samurai, by Akira Kurosawa. Antoine Fuqua takes the director’s...
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Slow West (2015)
Slow West is an offbeat Western, set in the American Old West but featuring mostly non-U.S. actors and shot in New Zealand. it’s a movie that entertains more from the odd little touches — a...
The Revenant (2015)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning film Birdman sees him go for a Western adventure of the most potent variety in The Revenant, a grueling tale of bloody revenge set in the wilderness of (presumably) the...
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Introductions are hardly necessary for Sergio Leone’s grand epic western, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, the greatest of the spaghetti westerns. Though Leone had directed two very impressive entries already in in the...
Unforgiven (1992)
Unforgiven is one of the rare films where I agree with the Academy Award voters, who proclaimed it the Best Picture of 1992. It ranks among the best Westerns of all time, almost a...
Goin’ South (1978)
Jack Nicholson stars as a horse thief, Henry Moon, who’s rounded up by the local posse of a small Texas town and sentenced to hang. Due to the lack of men coming back from...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was a nostalgic Western at the time of its release, and in time, most people were nostalgic for this film itself. It’s a deceptively complex film, and a...
Tombstone (1993)
I remember in an English class in college, getting a “B+” on a paper I could easily have gotten an “A” on. Although I remember it was something about the Shakespeare play, “Romeo and...