There was a time when you couldn’t flip on the TV or buy a movie ticket without running into a cowboy. Westerns were everywhere, filling Saturday matinees at the local movie theater, dominating ...

The 1940s were a decade that saw the rise of the Western movie genre, led by names like John Wayne and John Ford, who brought the American frontier and the Wild West to life on the big screen. The ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

For decades, the Western was the beating heart of Hollywood mythmaking, an arena where heroism rode tall in the saddle and the frontier seemed endless. But like the real West, the genre had its ...