Terror in a Texas Town
They Just Don’t Write ‘em Like That Anymore I’d have taglined this movie Sterling Hayden with a friggin’ HARPOON. This tasty taco of a B Western may lure you in with the fast food flavor of Hayden and...
View ArticleLittle Folks, Big Screen: The Terror of Tiny Town
Little Folks, Big Screen I’ll admit, I’ve always been enamored with little people. I don’t know where it began, perhaps when I saw Billy Barty in Foul Play and Under the Rainbow. I don’t recall...
View ArticleTerror in a Texas Town movie wallpaper
I reviewed this back here and Turner Classics is re-showing it, and offering this awesome wallpaper. The review is also at the excellent classic Westerns blog Decisions at Sundown. Tagged: Decisions at...
View ArticleThe Warrior’s Way
There now exists a subgenre known as the Samurai Western; they were made for each other, as Kurosawa directly inspired spaghetti westerns, and now it’s come back at us like a kid’s boomerang in a...
View ArticleCowboys & Aliens
Had a great time with this summer excitainment. Like Jon Favreau’s Iron Man movies, it’s light and enjoyable, just enough tongue in cheek. He makes a traditional western first, and a science fiction...
View ArticleReckoning at Rainrock
Wayne Dundee brings a fresh dose of humanity to Western pulp. This hardboiled tale of justice gone wrong takes what could easily be a black and white revenge story and puts you smack in the middle of...
View ArticleBelly Up to the Bar with Wayne Dundee
Wayne D. Dundee is the author of the Joe Hannibal P.I. novels, a number of westerns, and founded Hardboiled Magazine. He wrote the original western “Adeline” for the Protectors anthology, a horror...
View ArticleDjango Unbrained
Quentin Tarantino’s DJANGO UNCHAINED is disappointing, enjoyable, tedious, wonderful, and naive all at the same time. No movie is judged on its own merit. Like any artistic work, it is compared to...
View ArticleMan with a Harmonica
I first heard Apollo 440′s remix of Ennio Morricone’s classic “Man with a Harmonica” over the end credits of a great Sopranos episode, “Whoever Did This,” when we begin to see Tony’s veneer of...
View ArticleCongrats Wayne Dundee! “Adeline” wins the Peacemaker
Let us congratulate Wayne Dundee! His story for Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT, ”Adeline,” a gripping tale of frontier history and justice, has won the Peacemaker Award for best western short...
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