The Coen Brothers latest movie is a remake of classic western called True Grit. While Coen brothers receive critical acclaims for their movies, they rarely had big box office success with their movies. True Grit is a rare exception. It did better than most of their previous works in terms of box office success. It spent some time at the top of the … [Read more...]

It’s easy to see why some consider Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid one of the greatest western movie. Paul Newman and Robert Redford play two of the most iconic characters in the history cinema. The movie is not so much plot driven as it is character driven. And, this will appeal to almost everybody including non western fans. The movie does … [Read more...]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as a title really sums up the movie's plot, but it is more than your typical western movie. Not only is the title a spoiler, but it sums up the two main characters. JESSE JAMES is the villanous hero where as Rober Ford is the coward. The title allows us to sit back and enjoy the journey of … [Read more...]

The Wild Bunch is director Sam Peckinpah's vivid and provocative imagination of the west in the early 20th century. It is a remarkable film, both famed for bringing to screen one of most realistic dying west and for its intense portrayal of violence and brutality. Shot in widescreen, it is a dark and unrelenting tale of the 9 outlaws known as the … [Read more...]

John Ford is a great classic Western filmmaker, employing the classic Western film star, John Wayne, in perhaps one of the most underappreciated and unwatched films of our time. Ford builds a thoroughly entertaining and engrossing movie which explores classic Western themes without necessarily relying on these themes to drive the plot. Like any … [Read more...]

This is one of the best, and underrated, westerns ever made. It was a very intense, interesting character study of a famous lawman, showing flaws and all. In fact, this is the only version, I believe, that really shows the sadistic side of Wyatt Earp, and what made him a bitter man. To be fair, it also shows his good traits. Unlike other … [Read more...]

Clint Eastwood made this film in 1985 and at the time many people said it was the best movie that he had ever made. Some people even went further and said it was the best western ever made. But the raucous shoot-em-up Silverado came out that very same year, basically foisting Kevin Costner onto an unsuspecting world, and it made a bigger splash in … [Read more...]

Ford's most distinctive work has dealt with the white American's conquest of the wilderness... He has made films about most of the significant episodes in American history—early colonization of the West, the Civil War, the extermination of the Indians—and in so doing he has recounted the American saga in human terms and made it come … [Read more...]