Western Week: The Soundtrack
Howdy! It is time to wrap up Western Week, to say adios to our favourite westerns, mount on our horses and ride into sunset – for the time being. Oh ok, until tomorrow.We hope you had a great time this week – we sure did preparing it. So much so, we have decided to have [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 9 so far )Western Week: Nonsensical Weekend Poll
In honor of Western Week, this week’s ponderings: What is your favorite Western movie? A Fistful of Dollars – Remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, Sergio Leone’s film stars none other than Clint Eastwood. For A Few Dollars More – Second of Leone’s Dollars trilogy. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – The third of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 9 so far )Western Week: The New Frontier
The Western, on film, has dwindled in prevalence and fashionability since its mid 20th century heyday. Has the cowboy rode off into the sunset, never to be seen again? Nah. Like any other genre and art form, the Western has expanded, grown, and metamorphosed. Instead of just the classic shoot ‘em up westerns, or simple [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Western Week: TV Shows – Firefly
“We are not gonna die. You know why? Because we are so…very…pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.” Firefly was a (very) short- lived TV show created by Joss Whedon, the same creator of Buffy and Angel. Only 14 episodes were ever produced and out of those, only 11 were [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 7 so far )Western week: TV Shows – Deadwood
Deadwood was a TV Show produced by HBO which aired between 2004 and 2006, for 3 seasons, each with 12 episodes. In my opinion, some of the best 36 hours ever on TV. It is a Western which tells the story of Deadwood, a town in Dakota and some of the people that lived there [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Western Week: The Magnificent Seven
The Magnificent Seven is one of my very favorite movies–of all genres, not just westerns. It’s wild success when it was released in 1960 was pretty much a sure thing, considering the all star cast, director, and musical score. The Story: The movie opens on a small, dusty Mexican border town. A large gang of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Western Week: Once Upon a Time in the West
Silence. A door shrieks as the wind blows. An old man is writing in a chalkboard that the train from Flasgtone is going to be two hours late. Someone comes in, the camera focus on a gun and slowly moves upwards to the face of a man who just came into what appears to be [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Book Review: The Gunslinger Born
Title: The Gunslinger Born (The Dark Tower Graphic Novel) Author: Stephen King, Peter David, Robin Furth, and Jae Lee Review Number: 25 Genre: Graphic Novel, Horror, Dark Fantasy Stand alone or series: Graphic Novel adaptation of the 7 book Dark Tower Series; collection of the first arc of the Dark Tower of a planned multi-arc [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Book Review: The Gunslinger
Title: The Gunslinger Author: Stephen King Review Number : 31 Genre: fantasy/Horror Stand alone/ series: book 1 of Dark Tower series Summary: In the Gunslinger, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 9 so far )Western Week: The Man With No Name
In which we celebrate the archetypal character: The Man With No Name Gunslinger. Outlaw. Bounty Hunter. Anti-hero. These are just a few of the adjectives used to describe the Man With No Name. Best personified in Sergio Leone’s classic Dollars Trilogy, Clint Eastwood is the most recognized and emulated figure as the character. Clint Eastwood [...]
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