Westerns | Andy Wolverton

2023 Summer Reading Challenge: Showdown (1980) John H. Lenihan

Showdown: Confronting Modern America in the Western Film (1980) John H. Lenihan University of Illinois Press Paperback, 214 pages...

Best Discoveries of 2021: Westerns

Last year's westerns I don’t know exactly when I picked up my newfound interest in westerns, but I suspect it had something to do with...

A Film Noir Disguised as a Western? An Exploration of Quantez (1957)

Quantez (1957) Directed by Harry Keller Produced by Gordon Kay Screenplay by R. Wright Campbell Story by Anne Edwards, R. Wright Campbell...

What I Watched in April 2021, Part II

If you missed the first part of my April 2021 viewing, you can find it here. Gideon’s Day (aka Gideon of Scotland Yard, 1958) John Ford...

Growing Up with Movies: The Revisionist West Through the Eyes of a Nine-Year-Old

(This examination of Frank Perry's Doc (1971) contains SPOILERS.) My local theater’s poster for Doc (1971) promised something familiar,...

What I Watched in January 2021

My 2021 is off to a good start with some stellar films and some not-so-great “cellar” films. Any film with a + designation was chosen at...