Tagged: western

October 21, 2024

Monday Movie: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, by Rudie Obias

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid originally ran as a home video review. Director Sam Peckinpah is mostly known for two things: Making a lot of westerns, like The...

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July 13, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, by Rudie Obias

Director Sam Peckinpah is mostly known for two things: Making a lot of westerns, like The Deadly Companions, Ride the High Country, Major Dundee, and The Wild Bunch; and injecting a lot of bloody violence in his films, like Straw...

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May 22, 2023

Monday Movie: Buck and the Preacher, by Alexander Miller

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Buck and the Preacher originally ran as a Criterion Prediction. Poitier expertly blends political allegory into the myth of the American West by tapping into our...

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September 28, 2022

Dead for a Dollar: I’d Buy That, by David Bax

Let’s just start off by acknowledging that Walter Hill‘s Dead for a Dollar is a good movie because I want that to be the first thing you read before I lay out some of the problems with it. The main...

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July 26, 2022

Terror on the Prairie: Best of the West, by Tyler Smith

Though rigidly specific in its iconography, the Western genre is surprisingly broad in its scope. Some Westerns take place over decades, featuring dozens of characters and intricate action sequences. Others, however, strip away everything from the genre until it is...

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May 30, 2022

Monday Movie: The Bravados, by Kyle Anderson

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Bravados originally ran in 2010. The image of a lone figure on horseback, riding with purpose through rough and rugged terrain is as indelible as...

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April 26, 2022

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022: Part Two, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2022 Part Two After The Letter, here comes another movie with a Max Steiner score (not the last of the festival for me, either), Michael Curtiz‘ Angels with Dirty Faces. A crime picture with James Cagney...

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September 16, 2021

Cry Macho: Asleep in the Saddle, by David Bax

Despite being set in the relatively recent 1970s, Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho, in which an out-of-commission rodeo rider is enlisted by his ex-employer to go down to Mexico and retrieve the man’s son, Rafo, from an unfit mother, belongs to...

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May 11, 2021

TCM Classic Film Festival 2021: Part Two, by David Bax

1947’s T-Men is one of a flurry of propaganda movies made in the 1940s and 50s with the cooperation of various law enforcement agencies. Like 1949’s Trapped, this one’s about treasury agents tracking counterfeiters. Other examples include 1954’s Down Three...