The Western looks set for new levels of brutality in gnarly new Netflix series American Primeval. Starring Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch, the series has been likened to Cormac McCarthy’s Blood ...

John Wayne and Clint Eastwood are movie legends, and although they acted in vastly different movies, they both reached ...

Roy Rogers, often referred to as the "King of the Cowboys," was one of the most popular Western stars of the 1940s and '50s.

Directed by John Hillcoat, The Proposition is one of those uncomfortably profound Westerns that pushes a man to the brink, ...

Pretty much dismissed on its release, Vera Cruz can now be viewed as an exhilarating precursor to the spaghetti Westerns of the sixties. James Stewart showed that he could ride, shoot ‘em up and ...

Netflix's most ambitious western to date explores the conflicts that threaten to destroy pluralistic societies ...

Biering has used a childhood love of westerns to explore more profound issues of colonisation and struggles for power.

All six episodes of American Primeval are streaming now on Netflix.

Far from the white-hat-black-hat narratives of the classic western, and more visceral than the stylised shootouts of Clint Eastwood’s Spaghetti westerns, the bloody western takes the aggression ...