western – Stream On Demand

Leaving soon: Johnny Depp is a lizard in the old West in ‘Rango’ on Netflix

!Featured, Academy Award, Animation, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, Comedy, DVD, family friendly, Have You Seen...?, Kid Stuff, Netflix, satire, Spaghetti Cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 05/21/2023 Sean Axmaker

Gore Verbinski’s offbeat animated adventure is like a spaghetti western remake of ‘Chinatown’… with lizards.

‘Winchester ’73’ – James Stewart is out for revenge on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, National Film Registry, SVOD, western 05/18/2023 Sean Axmaker

The first of eight films that Stewart made with director Anthony Mann is a tight, lean revenge thriller, practically a film noir on the frontier.

James Woods and his wild bunch of vampire hunters in 'John Carpenter's Vampires'

John Carpenter’s ‘Vampires’ on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Halloween, horror, Netflix, Streaming Movies, Summer movie, SVOD, western 05/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

James Woods leads a wild bunch of vampire hunters through the American southwest in this dusty, dusky mix of western and horror.

Denzel Washington delivers ‘The Book of Eli’ on Hulu

!Featured, African-American filmmakers, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, road movie, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 05/10/2023 Sean Axmaker

Denzel Washington stars in this mix of post-apocalyptic science fiction, spaghetti western, and spiritual odyssey in burning desert badlands.

James Stewart is ‘The Man from Laramie’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Hollywood Classic, SVOD, western 05/02/2023 Sean Axmaker

Anthony Mann directs this frontier “King Lear,” a western drama of splintered families and filial betrayal set on the American plain.

Barbara Stanwyck packs ‘Forty Guns’ on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Have You Seen...?, western 03/27/2023 Sean Axmaker

Sam Fuller’s 1957 classic is a western of operatic emotion and pulp style, a true maverick production filled with cinematic thunder and sexual tension.

John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in the 1948 western classic by Howard Hawks

‘Red River’ – the great cattle drive epic on Prime Video, Paramount+ and MGM+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, DVD, Essential Viewing, Free, Hollywood Classic, Hoopla, MGM+, National Film Registry, Paramount+, SVOD, western 03/13/2023 Sean Axmaker

John Wayne and Montgomery Clift star in Howard Hawks’ classic western, which reimagines ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ as a frontier epic.

Glenn Ford and Van Heflin are bound for the ‘3:10 to Yuma’ on HBO Max

!Featured, based on a short story, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Hollywood Classic, Max, National Film Registry, SVOD, western 01/19/2023 Sean Axmaker

This excellent 1957 film from director Delmer Daves is a taut, austere western in the ‘High Noon’ mode but with a film noir sensibility.

Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster star in the modern outlaw western from director David Mackenzie

‘Hell or High Water’ – Outlaws of the new west on Hulu

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Blu-ray, Crime, drama, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, Have You Seen...?, Hulu, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 01/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

Jeff Bridges is a Texas Ranger on the trail of bank robbers Chris Pine and Ben Foster in this outlaw thriller set against the mortgage crisis.

Tommy Lee Jones is ‘The Homesman’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Max, Streaming Movies, SVOD, western 01/11/2023 Sean Axmaker

Hilary Swank stars in this take on western that presents the West as a hard place that creates hard people and destroys the rest. Tommy Lee Jones also cowrites and directs.