Westerns have reigned as a cherished film genre since the Silent Era and are considered to be a vital staple in American cinema and pop culture. Classic westerns like The Searchers, True Grit, and The ...

I'm a diehard fan of Westerns, and great movies like The Searchers, Shane, and The Revenant stand out as movies that hooked ...

My father was a military man who viewed John Wayne with skepticism, in part because of Wayne’s controversial decision not to serve in World War II but more particularly because he thought ...

Martin Scorsese tells IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit podcast that the classic Western may be dead — but its lessons are still there in his films. Scorsese feels that the Western as he knew it in ...

Not all Westerns have to be set in the Wild West era of the 19th and early 20th century, with neo-Westerns bringing the familiar tropes to present-day. The Coen Brothers teamed up in 2007 to adapt ...

Western films have been a dominant force in Hollywood almost as long as Hollywood has existed. Themes of freedom, escapism, and the strong appeal of the western frontier popularized the genre, ...

My father was a military man who viewed John Wayne with skepticism, in part because of Wayne’s controversial decision not... Philip Martin has been a columnist and critic for the Arkansas ...