You’re conscience is sensitive, Dan. I don’t think it’s my favorite part of you.

Unlike the South, the western does seem to rise again. And again and again and again. The genre has been pronounced dead more often than Generalissimo Francisco Franco on Saturday Night Live, but they keep making them. And despite the tendency of the Horse Opera to endlessly recycle plots, this is one of the few explicit remakes I can recall, save for the odd TV movie of the week.

3:10 to Yuma is a movie with its feet in two eras. (more…)