John Wayne is remembered as one of the most influential and prolific stars to emerge from the Western genre. Known for his ...

Many of the best Western thrillers keep audiences' attention with gritty narratives about revenge, sacrifices, hidden ...

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Far from the white-hat-black-hat narratives of the classic western, and more visceral than the stylised shootouts of Clint Eastwood’s Spaghetti westerns, the bloody western takes the aggression ...

Look up any list of the best Westerns of all time and you might notice a bit of a theme. The overwhelming majority of the movies tend to be from before the mid-1960s, with a few sprinkled in from ...

Directed by John Hillcoat, The Proposition is one of those uncomfortably profound Westerns that pushes a man to the brink, with an overemphasis on the meaninglessness of violence, and the moral ...