Underrated Western Movies

The 1970s was a decade of reinvention for the film industry. The emergence of some of today’s most prominent filmmakers began to make their mark in cinema. Martin Scorsese dazzled us with Taxi Driver and Mean Streets. Steven Spielberg terrified us with Jaws and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Coppola gave us two Godfathers, […]

By 1990, westerns were few and far between. When Kevin Costner starred, directed and produced Dances With Wolves in 1990 and then Clint Eastwood starred, directed and produced Unforgiven in 1992, a western resurgence would occur. Both were hits at the box office and earned multiple Academy Awards. Now Hollywood would get to work on […]

The Western is one of the most formative genres in the canon of cinema. The American Frontier is the ideal setting for a film that examines the past, the present, and the future. Through its location, characters, and concepts, Westerns, in gracious and scathing fashions, dissects American history and culture. While an archaic genre today, […]