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LATEST ARTICLES ( 313 )

• Madigan

  

  A little like the western, the crime story has remained one of the constants of genre filmmaking down the years. Any story which involves elements of crime has... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Apache Territory

  

  The low budget western was arguably as important a representative of the genre as it's more illustrious and more expensive cousins. The sheer quantity of... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Horizons West

  

  There are movies which look like they have everything going for them: a director with a substantial and significant reputation, a strong cast, and a promising... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ambush

  

  Mention cavalry films to anyone familiar with classic era movies, and westerns in particular, and the odds are they will immediately think of John Ford. Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Panhandle

  

  Certain plot devices come up time and again in westerns, so much so that they can start to feel like old friends after a while. Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• War Paint

  

  It’s a pity the way low budget programmers, and those who made them, tend to get less critical attention and respect than their more expensive cousins. Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Riding Shotgun

  

  Ever watch a movie and find yourself struggling to quite get a handle on it? I don’t mean in terms of following the plot, rather the direction in which the... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Lawman

  

  It’s always the same. If you post a man, he has to come into town to prove he’s a man. Or you kill a man, he’s got a friend or kin – he just has to come... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Firecreek

  

  Somewhere in the mid-60s the western began to be less attractive, both in terms of the look and the mood. It’s something which seemed to creep into the genre... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Incredible Shrinking Man

  

  The cellar stretched before me like some vast primeval plain, empty of life, littered with the relics of a vanished race. No desert island castaway ever faced s... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Big Heat

  

  Over the years I’ve spent a fair bit of time talking about film noir, musing over what it is or isn’t and, perhaps inevitably, looking at quite a few... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Unsuspected

  

  His day of reckoning must come. He is tormented by fear that someday he will make one false move, one slip that will betray him, and when he does, the... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Oklahoman

  

  Allied Artists Pictures grew out of Poverty Row specialists Monogram and produced and distributed movies from the late 40s through to the 70s. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Outcast

  

  You wanna ride that horse straight up or belly down?Another week, another Witney. I’m not entirely sure why I’d neglected to feature this director on the site... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Apache Rifles

  

  One of the great pleasures of blogging about movies is the way it has a habit of altering one’s plans in a positive way. Recent discussion put me in the mood... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Santa Fe Passage

  

  All westerns are about journeys. In some cases this journey is explicit and external, involving some pioneering trip along or beyond the frontier. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• 2015 in Review

  

  So another year is almost done and dusted, always a good opportunity to say thanks to all those who have stopped by and made the blogging experience a... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Backfire

  

  All right. What’s certain? Two things… death and taxes… There aren’t too many films noir set in and around the holiday season, Christmas Holiday and Lady in... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• City of Bad Men

  

  A lot of you all rode into this town, but you are the only one who saw anything. You noticed the change. The others don’t look past the end of their guns. You... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Two Weeks in Another Town

  

  Introspection can be both self-indulgent and revealing, turning the gaze inward in search of some truth that seems elusive in the outside world can bring... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2015 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES