Category: Westerns

Rancho Deluxe (1975)

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By: Oberst Von Berauscht (Three Beers) – Rancho Deluxe is the story  of a rustling scheme cooked up by two down-on-their-luck cattleman, Jack McKee and Cecil Colson (played by The Dude and a younger, pot-smoking Jack McCoy respectively).  Starting off small by


Ride with the Devil (1999)

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By: Oberst Von Berauscht (Two Beers) -   Jake Roedel (Tobey Maguire) is a Missourian who defies his German father’s devotion to the Union and joins the South as a bushwhacker for Quantrill’s Raiders.  He forms a small unit with several


Casa De Mi Padre (2012)

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By Oberst Von Berauscht (Two Beers) -   Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) is a true Ranchero, having lived and worked on his family’s land since he was but a little Niño.  He loves his family and his cattle (especially his


Catch .44 (2011)

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By: BabyRuth (Five Beers) - Opening in limited release on December 9th and then available on DVD and Blu-Ray December 20th, Catch .44 is a fast-paced action drama starring Bruce Willis, Forest Whitaker, and Malin Akerman.  I’ve never even heard about


Destry Rides Again (1939)

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By: B-Side (Three Beers) - Welcome to the town of Bottleneck, which is about as big of a lawless boondoggle as anyplace in the old West. After the local Sheriff goes missing at the behest of an unscrupulous land-owner, Tom


Meek’s Cutoff (2011)

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By: Henry J. Fromage (Two Beers) - It has to be pretty much impossible to bring a new perspective on the Western genre, but I can’t think of another film that tries to couple telling a story from a female


The Warrior’s Way (2010)

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By: Henry J. Fromage (Four Beers) - The world’s greatest swordsman tries to build a new life in the Old West, but his past comes after him.  Violence ensues. A Toast The Warrior’s Way gets props simply for the idea. 


The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008)

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By: Oberst von Berauscht (Two Beers) -   A Toast Finally, a mainstream action movie made by South-Koreans, filmed in the deserts of China and paying tribute to a Western made in the deserts of Spain by an Italian film


True Grit (1969)

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By: Henry J. Fromage (Three Beers) -   Based on the Charles Portis novel, a young girl seeks to revenge herself on the man who killed her father with a steely, hard-bitten U.S. Marshal named Rooster Cogburn (John Wayne) and


True Grit (2010)

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By: Oberst von Berauscht (A Toast) -   Remakes are like meeting a long lost friend.They turn up when nobody expects them to, ask for your money, and hang around long enough for you to remember why they became “long