Since the earliest days of Hollywood, Westerns have made gunslingers the cornerstone of cinema, from classic films like Shane to modern icons like The Hateful Eight and 3:10 to Yuma. Touching on the ...

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 ...

John Wayne as Ethan Edwards in The Searchers, standing next to a horse and looking perplexed. Image via Warner Bros. Western movies are often considered to be a genre of perfection, not because ...