Friday, December 20, 2024

The Old Way (2023)

Pax and Michael watch The Old Way, starring Nicolas Cage, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Noah Le Gros, and Nick Searcy.

Michael also talks about The 3 Mesquiteers and Louis Brooks in Overland Stage Raiders (1938) and the Sam Houston biopic Man of Conquest (1939).

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1980)

Always on the lookout for Westerns starring women, Michael and Pax watch Lamont Johnson's Cattle Annie and Little Britches. Amanda Plummer and Diane Lane insert themselves into a demotivated outlaw gang (run by Burt Lancaster and Scott Glenn) as it tries to avoid capture by Marshal Rod Steiger. 

Pax also watches The Thicket (2024) while Michael takes a look at Heart of Arizona (1938) and The Bold Caballero (1936).

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Joe Kidd (1972)

Pax and Michael track down another Clint Eastwood Western with Joe Kidd. Directed by John Sturge; also starring Robert Duvall and John Saxon. 

Michael also watches The Arizonian (1935) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936), and Pax reads Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard.

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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

House II: The Second Story (1987)

Michael stretches the definitions of both "Western" and "Horror" when he makes Pax and guest Shawn Robare watch House II: The Second Story. Though it does have undead cowboys. The movie is the sequel to 1985's House and stars Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano, John Ratzenberger, Bill Maher, and Lar Park-Lincoln.

Saturday, October 19, 2024

A Knife for the Ladies (1974)

It's October and time again for some Weird Westerns! In this first of two Halloween episodes, Pax and Michael are joined by Shawn Robare to discuss Knife for the Ladies, in which Jack Elam plays an ornery sheriff forced to team up with a young private detective to solve a series of Jack the Ripper-like murders in a dying Western town.

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Comanche Station (1960)

Michael and Pax finish watching the Budd Boetticher / Randolph Scott Westerns with Comanche Station, also starring Nancy Gates and Claude Akins.

And Michael also watched a couple of 1930s Westerns: Buck Jones and Louise Brooks in Empty Saddles (1936) and William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy in Partners of the Plains (1938).

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)

Pax and Michael take a listener request and talk about John Sturges' Last Train from Gun Hill starring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, and Carolyn Jones.