In the 1945 Western film “Dakota,” John Wayne plays John Devlin, a professional gambler who marries the daughter of a railroad magnate and heads west looking for fortune in the Dakotas. While aboard a ...

When director Quentin Tarantino started making movies, he came with an incredible knowledge of cinema and cinema history. This meant that a lot of his films would look to tell new and interesting ...

The Western genre is one of the oldest and cherished film genres to ever enter the landscape of cinema and successfully transitioned into the Talkies, only growing immensely popular among movie goers.

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

Like the old American west itself, the glory days of the movie western are well behind us, but it is nevertheless enshrined in history as one of the most venerable of genres. The style and tropes of ...