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This article documents those rare occasions when a captain’s decision to insert Australia paid off handsomely. It therefore balances out the series’ preceding Part 1 Who gives a toss? Part 1: When sending Australia in paid off (or so it seemed) and Part 2 Who gives a toss? Part 2: When sending Australia in backfired […]

The Cowboy Channel "Duketober" Celebrates John Wayne

No work has so passionately tapped into the anxieties of Christianity in the wake of Donald Trump as Mike Flanagans mini-series, Midnight Mass.

It isn't just that John Wayne gets killed. He was killed before in the movies although not very often, and certainly not after he assumed the mantle of legend. No, it isn't that; he had to catch it sometime. And give him credit. He can absorb lead like nobody since "The Thing" (from another world). He gets shot in the leg. Then in the arm. Then in the other arm. Then in the back. And he still lives until morning, and has a noble speech or two left inside him. The thing is, whe...

November 5, 1950 - September 18, 2021

John Ford and John Wayne together created much of the mythology of the Old West we carry in our minds. Beginning with "Stagecoach" (1939), continuing from 1948 through 1950 with the Cavalry Trilogy ("Fort Apache," "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and "Rio Grande"), and finally to 1962 and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," together in 10 features they largely formed the templates of the Hollywood Western. Of these "Liberty Valance" was the m...

Screen Ireland has announced plans to invest €3 million in Ireland’s TV and film industry.

Directed by London-born Jeymes Samuel, the movie with an all-black cast and strong female characters was always going to be unique, but the experience was also shaped by Covid

Rock Island Auction’s expects John Wayne’s personal Single-Action Army Revolver to bring between $20,000 and $40,000 in October 2021’s Sporting & Collector Firearms Auction. Wayne used the .44 WCF and included holster rig in several of his films, including True Grit. 

Moving tributes have been paid to these well-loved figures, including Actor Michael K. Williams and singer Sarah Harding.