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Paxton Holley and Michael May sit at the campfire to talk Westerns in film and other media.

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    • TV & Film
    • 4.5 • 42 Ratings

Paxton Holley and Michael May sit at the campfire to talk Westerns in film and other media.

    Bloodrayne 2 - Deliverance (2007)

    Bloodrayne 2 - Deliverance (2007)

    Happy April Fool's Month!  In this episode Mike and Pax cover Bloodrayne 2: Deliverance which features Pat Garrett and a vampire Billy the Kid!

    • 1 hr 8 min
    Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

    Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)

    Michael and Pax continue exploring the Ranown Westerns with Budd Boetticher's Buchanan Rides Alone, starring Randolph Scott and also featuring one of our favorites, LQ Jones. And Pax reads a Western detective novel, Holmes on the Range.

    • 1 hr 13 min
    Shanghai Joe (1973)

    Shanghai Joe (1973)

    Mike and Pax are joined by their good buddy Jeeg to discuss the 1973 Eastern meets Western, Shanghai Joe starring Chen Lee and Klaus Kinski.

    • 1 hr 19 min
    Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)

    Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)

    Michael and Pax celebrate the 150th episode of Hellbent with last year's Bass Reeves mini-series starring David Oyelowo, Lauren E Banks, and Forrest Goodluck. And guest-starring Barry Pepper, Shea Whigham, Dennis Quaid, and Donald Sutherland. 
    Pax also talks about his recent guest-appearance on the Authorized Novelizations Podcast discussing Theodore Sturgeon's novelization of The Rare Breed.

    • 1 hr 40 min
    My Little Chickadee (1940)

    My Little Chickadee (1940)

    Michael and Pax foray once more into western comedy with the Mae West classic, My Little Chickadee, from 1940 costarring WC Fields.

    • 1 hr 2 min
    Decision at Sundown (1957)

    Decision at Sundown (1957)

    Michael and Pax resume their tour of the Ranown Westerns directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott. In Decision at Sundown, Scott comes to town gunning for vengeance against the community's most powerful citizen, but Scott's not saying exactly why. The movie also features John Carroll, Karen Steele, Valerie French, John Archer, and Noah Beery Jr.
    And in a special Christmas-themed edition of Whatchoo Been Westernin'? the fellas talk about Jack Palance as the title character in Ebenezer, a Western retelling of A Christmas Carol that also stars Ricky Schroeder.

    • 1 hr 19 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
42 Ratings

42 Ratings

Ethan McGuire Collins ,

Beware Cookie

Michael and Pax have an obvious and diverse love of the Western genre.

OliverWiswell ,

Ignorance Abounds

These gentlemen know shockingly little about the Western genre.

USMC3037 ,

Good, but Cautious about the Wokeness

I recently found this podcast and like it very much, but I am hesitant about the occasional woke interjections. They don’t go as far as those other dbags of the Cinefiles. Putting things into context is fine, but the woke guilt whining of the Cinefiles guys made me turn them off. I hope these fellas keep up the good work.

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