The Shooting, the cult classic '60s Western starring future Oscar-winner Jack Nicholson, is airing on TV today (Thursday, 30 October).

There was a time when you couldn’t flip on the TV or buy a movie ticket without running into a cowboy. Westerns were everywhere, filling Saturday matinees at the local movie theater, dominating primetime and sparking playground debates over who was the ...

I am a lifelong fan of the Western genre, and Tombstone, Shane, and High Noon are among the best movies in the genre I watch over and over.

Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven gave the West one of its greatest stories ever, but in the years since its release, other examples have been even better.

Everyone loves to root for the outlaw in some of the best Westerns of all time, right? One of the great things about the genre is that usually the lines are clear, there are good guys and bad guys. White hats and black hats. Often, the guys wearing the ...

The Western genre is a cornerstone of American cinema and is known for its traditional stories of lone gunslingers and noble lawmen who roam the Wild West in search of justice, freedom, and efforts to establish law and order in the lawless, crime-ridden ...