This year marks the 40th anniversary of the classic Old West parody "Blazing Saddles." I mention this because if you want to see an Old West parody, you should rent or stream Mel Brooks' subversive ...

Where to begin with “Outlaw Johnny Black”? The newest genre flick from martial-arts icon and director-writer Michael Jai White, the Western action-comedy has been touted as the spiritual successor to ...

Dan Blocker as Hoss Cartwright, Lorne Greene as Ben Cartwright, and Michael Landon as Little Joe Cartwright on 'Bonanza' Image via NBC For fourteen seasons between 1959 and 1973, Bonanza graced ...

If you’re in need of a diversion in these terrible, wearisome times — and surely we all are — might I suggest Theatre of Note’s uproarious staging of Bill Robens’ western parody Rio Hondo, under the ...

Excuse our film critic while he whips out an appreciation of Mel Brooks’s brilliant western parody starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder. On Sept. 1, 2016, I attended a screening of the western ...

This misguided Western parody, starring and directed by Michael Jai White, struggles to establish a comedic rhythm. By Brandon Yu When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through ...

Although John Wayne turned down Mel Brooks’ iconic Western spoof Blazing Saddles, this ironically saved the iconic parody movie. John Wayne’s many Western movies might contain moments of comedic ...

When it comes to classic TV Western programs, there was never a series quite like Maverick. The Roy Huggins-created drama dealt largely in humorous takes on the Old West genre, spanning five seasons ...

Don’t Worry Darling is many things: a unique movie with an interesting premise, a vehicle for a great Florence Pugh performance, and the most-watched movie on Hulu in the last five days. It looks like ...

Where to begin with “Outlaw Johnny Black”? The newest genre flick from martial-arts icon and director-writer Michael Jai White, the Western action-comedy has been touted as the spiritual successor to ...