The spaghetti Western was more than just an Italian imitation. It was a reinvention. Where classic American Westerns of the late 1950s and early '60s leaned on clean-cut heroes and moral clarity, ...

The Dollars trilogy by Sergio Leone are some of the most iconic Westerns of all time, let alone among those out of Italy, but they luckily have many amazing peers. The Western was an incredibly ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...