Since the earliest days of Hollywood, the Western gunslinger has been revered as one of the greatest hero archetypes on film.

Many great Westerns contributed big moments, but one small quote from a classic is still the best of the genre.

It’s been 65 years since The Magnificent Seven first rode into theaters in 1960, and the film still stands tall as one of Hollywood’s great Westerns. Adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and ...

John Pickard was one of the greatest character actors of his era, appearing in a number of Western films and dramas, but his ...

“Rust,” Alec Baldwin and Joel Souza’s slow-moving, sepia-toned homage to the American western, is the kind of respectable if unremarkable genre exercise that would have come and gone without much ...

The former studio boss and actor, whose career spanned film, television and Broadway, has died at the age of 100 ...

“What you got ain’t nothin’ new,” drawls Ellis (Barry Corbin) to Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) in the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning neo-Western film “No Country for Old Men.” This notion of perpetual ...

A philosopher makes the case for Hollywood Westerns. One of the more surprising trends in publishing in recent years has been the “philosophy and popular culture” phenomenon. Three ...

One of Daves’ classics is “Broken Arrow.” Released 75 years ago to commercial and critical success, the film represented “a ...