When it comes to Westerns, it's the characters who make or break the genre. A good Western hero is the type of figure you can get behind — a lawman, an outlaw, a bounty hunter, or a gunslinger who ...

For much of cinema history, female characters existed largely as love interests, mothers, or decorative counterpoints to male heroes. Thankfully, that dynamic has been continuously shifting throughout ...

The 1940s were a decade that saw the rise of the Western movie genre, led by names like John Wayne and John Ford, who brought the American frontier and the Wild West to life on the big screen. The ...