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Everyone's favorite neo-western saga Yellowstone is back! After Season 2's bloody finale, the Season 3 premiere is like a breath of fresh air, reminding fans of why we fell in love with the deeply flawed Dutton clan in the first place even while setting up the looming threat of Market Equities and introducing the sure-to-be villain Roarke Morris...
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Before Kevin Costner's dreary Wyatt Earp came out less than a year later, there was the rollicking good time that was Tombstone. Starring Kurt Russell as the legendary lawman, Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Michael Biehn, Jason Priestly... Basically, if there's a man you can imagine might be in an action/Western in ...
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Kevin Costner directs and stars in Open Range, a 2003 Western that deserved far more acclaim than it received. Costner plays former solider turned cattleman Charley Waite, who joins Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall) and Button (a devastating Dieog Luna), to drive a herd across the unrelenting open range. When land baron Denton Baxter’s gang attacks...
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On the heels of the news that Martin Scorsese will be helming a forthcoming Bob Dylan project, revisit one of Dylan's more unusual career turns, a role in Sam Peckinpah's landmark western Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. The 1973 film stars James Coburn as Pat Garrett and Dylan contemporary Kris Kristofferson as Billy The Kid. As for Zimmy himself,...
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Directed by John Singleton, Four Brothers is a gritty urban Western that takes place on the violent, snowy streets of Detroit. After their foster mother is straight up executed while buying a turkey for Thanksgiving, adopted brothers Jeremiah (Andre Benjamin), Angel (Tyrese Gibson), Jack (Garrett Hedlund) and the “Michigan Mauler” himself...
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The Missing flew under the radar upon its release in 2003 and that’s a real shame because it is easily one of the most interesting Westerns of the past 20 years. Skillfully directed by Ron Howard, the film follows healer Maggie Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett) and her two young daughters, Lilly (Evan Rachel Wood) and Dot (Jenna Boyd), as they try to...
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Let me preface this enthusiastic recommendation with an admission: Westerns are NOT my thing. It's not that I actively dislike them, but I've seen enough of them over the years to recognize that I'd much rather watch, well, just about anything else. Reading Sonny Bunch's recent Decider essay about Bone Tomahawk director S. Craig Zahler, though,...
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Directed by then-budding auteur David Lowery, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints is a lyrical stunner that follows the story of two outlaws in love, Bob (Casey Affleck) and Ruthie (Rooney Mara), who are separated by a jail sentence and miles and miles of the American southwest landscape. After 4 long years in prison, Bob breaks out to find Ruthie and...
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The 2007 Academy Award winner for Best Picture saw the Coen brothers return to the American west yet again, but this time for a collaboration with Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed novel about morality on a life-or-death scale when a working man tries to profit off of stumbling across a drug bust gone bad and ends up pursued by a psychopathic hitman....
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