John Huston‘s 1972 Western classic The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean starring Paul Newman and an all star cast including Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, Ned Beatty, Roddy McDowall, Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, Ava Gardner, Stacy Keach and Michael Sarrazin is coming to Blu Ray this summer from Warner Archive. Synopsis: Vinegaroon […]
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Forsaken is a 2015 western starring Kiefer Sutherland (The Lost Boys). Next to a number of other recent westerns, I was looking forward to this one quite a bit. It kept a low profile, maybe due to lack of other bigger (charming) stars, as the Sutherlands (his father Donald plays his on-screen […]
Olive Films’ Signature Editions label will be releasing Burt Kennedy’s 1971 western HANNIE CAULDER starring Raquel Welch on BluRay on November 15th. BUY FROM AMAZON OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS: Revenge is a loaded gun in director Burt Kennedy’s (The Train Robbers) Hannie Caulder. Raquel Welch (One Million Years B.C.,100 Rifles, and Mother […]
The Criterion Collection presents Marlon Brando’s 1961 Western masterpiece ONE-EYED JACKS on BluRay. This newly restored edition which was supervised by fans Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese will be released on November 22nd. BUY FROM AMAZON Official Synopsis: A western like no other, One-Eyed Jacks combines the mythological scope of […]
In the early 1970s, a new pop culture phenomenon was capturing the attention of people around the world. It was the beginning of what we now know as the “Kung Fu craze”. The world of Martial Arts was not exactly new, the form of fighting had been seen in movies […]
One of the greatest revenge themed Westerns is Henry Hathaway’s NEVADA SMITH (1966) starring Steve McQueen. The story is set in the 1890s and begins when three outlaws Jesse Coe (Martin Landau), Bill Bowdre (Arthur Kennedy) and Tom Fitch (Karl Malden) viciously rob, torture and kill the parents of young […]
Jane Got a Gun, the much delayed 2015 western with Natalie Portman (Closer), Joel Edgerton (Warrior) and Ewan McGregor (A Life Less Ordinary) has seen a troubled production history. It got released very late into theaters (or not at all), disappeared as quickly as it arrived and is now trying […]
John Ford’s 1949 Western Technicolor classic SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON will be coming to BluRay from Warner Archive on June 7th. BUY FROM AMAZON In this second installment in Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy (which included Fort Apache and Rio Grande), John Wayne stars as US Cavalry Captain Nathan Cutting Brittles, […]
Robert Altman’s classic 1971 Anti-Western McCABE & MRS. MILLER will be coming to the Criterion Collection on August 9th. Buy from Amazon SYNOPSIS: This unorthodox dream western by Robert Altman may be the most radically beautiful film to come out of the New American Cinema that transformed Hollywood in the […]
Here’s the first look at Antoine Fuqua’s Western action film THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, Matt Bomer and Peter Sarsgaard. Fans will no doubt be wondering if this latest take on Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece […]