The ’60s was an incredible decade for the Westerns. It was an exciting time for the genre as Sergio Leone and John Ford kept delivering their masterpieces, and films like Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch’ were a game changer for everyone. It’s all too obvious since there were so many great films, some ended up […]
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10 Great Underrated 1990s American Movie Classics You Probably Haven’t Seen
As a teenager in the 1990s, one was aware that American cinema was experiencing something of a golden renaissance, a period in which indie cinema and mainstream blockbusters could exist together and get along. There was room for both, and in fact the average cinema buff could healthily sample the mainstream and the independent, and […]
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All 14 Michael Mann Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
For the past half century, Michael Mann has remained a major creative force in American cinema and an absolute stalwart of the action genre. Throughout a boundary-pushing career that has seen him transform the landscapes of both film and TV, Mann has shown a keen eye for bombastic set pieces and a consistent interest in […]
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The 10 Best Western Movies of The 1960s
When assembling a chronological list of the ten best Westerns of the 1960s, one thing seems abundantly clear: the middle years of the decade are surprisingly barren. The first few years of the 1960s feel massively different stylistically to the outstanding Westerns of 1969; as if the assassination of President Kennedy had fractured America’s self-belief […]
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10 Great Recent Western Movies You Probably Haven’t Seen
Gone are the days when the Western genre once compromised 30% of Hollywood’s output. Back then, in the postwar period until the late 1950s, every actor and their mums surely made at least one cowboy picture. As for now? Audiences are lucky if they get one a year. What is curious though is that because […]
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10 Great 2000s American Movie Classics You Probably Haven’t Seen
Given how many films are released these days, it’s understandable that many of them go under the radar and end up becoming completely forgotten. For every box office hit or critical success of the 2000 to 2009 era, there are tons of movies that died at the theatres and received an often unfair kicking from […]