Wild Wild West
I was and still am a huge Will Smith fan. I grew up on his rap albums and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and when The Fresh Prince started making big budget movies like Independence Day and Men in ...
Western Movies
The Mask of Zorro
Back in 1998 when The Mask of Zorro came out, I remember it being a pretty big deal. Antonio Banderas was a huge star and for me personally, movies like Assassins and Desperado made me a fan of his. ...
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
I can see why some people will absolutely love Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1. For me, this is something I feel I would have enjoyed far more if I had waited to watch it at home. Hey, I ...
City Slickers
I remember seeing the trailer for City Slickers on the Home Alone VHS tape and it was because “Marv” was in the movie I wanted to see it. City Slickers is a fun and heartfelt comedy that has a lot of ...
Rango
Released in 2011, Rango is a really personal movie for me. That may sound like an odd thing to say about an animated movie I saw as an adult, but hear me out. Rango was the very first movie I took my ...
Jonah Hex
Jonah Hex is one of my dad’s favorite comic book characters so he was a character that I grew up knowing a bit about. He appeared in Batman the Animated Series in the 90s and my own son’s Batman ...
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The good versus evil thing was a huge selling point for Westerns back in the 1950s and early 1960s. People use to love that stuff, with a gunslinging hero who leaves everything behind to go after an ...
Brokeback Mountain
There aren’t many filmmakers like Ang Lee out there, somehow this man manages to create films that will stay with you long after you’re done watching them. It doesn’t matter how good they are, or if ...
The Book of Eli
The post-apocalyptic genre has long been dominated by bland franchises or boring features, with many other films in the genre going relatively unnoticed. Despite this, the potential for great ...
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford came at an odd time in Hollywood’s history. This was an era where people simply did not like Westerns anymore. Westerns were hugely popular ...
