With no real fanfare, it was almost a fluke that I stumbled upon director Jesse V. Johnson’s latest Thieves Highway (2025). Being a fan of Johnson, I did know some information about the film’s production, but it was only by chance that I found myself noticing that it had been given its premier in the UK through Sky Cinema. While not a platform I regularly use, seeing as it was a new Johnson film, I just had to. Sharing its title with Jules Dassin’s fantastic 1949 film Noir,

While the golden years of the Western Genre were no doubt the 50's and 60's, the 70's still had its own fair share of classics. The likes of High Plains Drifter (1973) and Pat Garret & Billy the Kid (1973) are just two examples of what the decade had to offer. Admittedly, these Westerns were quite removed from what had come before, with a stronger focus on sex and violence. No longer could you be certain that the hero would ride in on his white horse and save the day. One pe

Having collaborated the year previously on crime thriller St Ives (1976), director J. Lee Thompson and Charles Bronson didn’t waste any time in teaming up again, following the witty crime story up with western hybrid The White Buffalo (1977). Produced by the infamous Dino De Laurentis, it was clear that he was in monster movie mode at this point in his career, with him turning out King Kong (1976) the year previously and then on to the frankly ridiculous Orca (1977). The Whit

When most people think of director Sam Peckinpah, they probably think of the slo-mo violence of The Wild Bunch (1969) or the depravity of Straw Dogs (1971). Before this however, he would direct one of the most elegiac American Westerns of the 1960's, the wonderful Ride the High Country (1962). While it may not feature the bloodletting of his later Westerns, it does share a lot of the same themes such as loyalty among men and aging heroes being outdated by time. Many of