Rust
Wyoming, 1882; an aging gunslinger (Alec Baldwin) escapes with his 13-year-old grandson (Patrick Scott McDermott), hunted by a marshal, bounty hunters and Native Americans. A Western that will forever be…
Cimarron
One of the earliest Best Picture winners had the look and feel of an epic, depicting a family over several decades, beginning with the Oklahoma land rush in 1889; the…
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
The first chapter in Kevin Costner’s Western epic, depicting pioneer days in 1860s Arizona; we follow a sprawling cast of characters around Horizon, a new frontier town. Traditional and modern…
Breakheart Pass
In the 1870s, a train is headed for Fort Humboldt in California where diphtheria is raging – but that’s far from the whole truth. The same year as the director…
The Settlers
In 1893, three men are sent out on an expedition to reclaim land for a businessman (Alfredo Castro); they are an indigenous worker (Camilo Arancibia), a British military veteran (Mark…
Westworld
What became an exciting thriller by Michael Crichton in 1973 was turned into a far more ambitious but also convoluted TV series, set in the 2050s where a corporation is…
Dances With Wolves: Finding Your Tribe
Kevin Costner. Photo: Orion Pictures If Dances With Wolves had been released today, poisonous social media activism and cable news outlets would have made it part of the culture war,…
Stagecoach: Introducing John Wayne
Andy Devine, John Wayne and Louise Platt. Photo: United Artists Today, we remember John Ford as a great director of Westerns. In 1939, that wasn’t really the case. Ford hadn’t…
The Magnificent Seven
When a small town is harassed by a robber baron (Peter Sarsgaard), the local townsfolk hire a band of men to defend them. A remake of the 1960 classic that…
Magnificent Seven: It Takes a Village
Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholtz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter and James Coburn. Photo: United Artists In 2009, Robert Vaughn released an autobiography that revealed the full extent…