Year of the Month: Son of Griff on THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY
A number of movies have changed my views on life, but The Good, the Bad,…
Confederates in Hollywood
It would not surprise me to learn that John Wayne played more Confederate veterans in…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar is not your typical Western. Sure, it’s got gunslingers and horses, red rocks…
Year of the Month: Miller on Vera Cruz
A group of rough men rides into a small Mexican town. They stop another group…
Buchanan Rides Alone: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on Budd Boetticher’s Existential Hangout Western
The issue with writing about westerns is that there’s just so many of them: John…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on the Westerns of 1962
In 1962 many viewers thought that Westerns, and the Hollywood studios, were in decline. The…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Red River
SPOILERS: The following review makes plenty of references to this film’s ending and plot developments…
Sixty Years Later, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre’s Anti-Capitalist Values Haven’t Aged a Day by Joey Lee (Year of the Month)
Is it just me or did The Treasure of the Sierra Madre age shockingly well?…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
If movies were geometry, Westerns would be vectors, moving in a trajectory forever into the…
Year Of The Month – The Wild Bunch
The people who believe that Peckinpah and The Wild Bunch are exclusively pro-violence, that the…