Joe Leydon

1 week ago | cowboysindians.com | Joe Leydon

Audie Murphy was a real-life superstar long before he started making movies. Indeed, the much-decorated World War II hero — born June 20, 1925 in Kingston, Texas — was such a larger-than-life figure that when Hollywood adapted his 1949 autobiography To Hell and Back for the big screen in 1955, the producers could find no one more suitable for the lead  role than Murphy himself. But he couldn’t be accurately billed as a “newcomer” when that biopic was released.

1 week ago | cowboysindians.com | Joe Leydon

Luke Grimes has a lot of different things on his plate right now. But when it comes to filling his glass with his favorite adult beverage, his heart belongs only to the prime products — Bourbon, Double Rye and Campfire Whiskey — of the Park City, Utah-based High West distillery. The former Yellowstone star recently signed on as ambassador for High West and the brand’s conservation efforts through its Protect the West Initiative.

1 week ago | cowboysindians.com | Joe Leydon

It’s partly fact, partly fiction  — and judging from the response it received earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, altogether fascinating. Filmmaker Kate Beecroft’s East of Wall, which Sony Pictures Classics will open theatrically on Aug. 15, won the Audience Award at Sundance, and captivated critics at the festival as well.

2 weeks ago | cowboysindians.com | Joe Leydon

To begin with the obvious question: What’s it all about? The answer: The Unholy Trinity, the new western set to open June 13 in theaters nationwide, spins a tale of violent revenge, dark secrets, and buried treasures in 1870s Montana. Just before his hanging for a crime he claims he didn’t commit, outlaw Isaac Broadway makes his estranged son Henry promise to send the man who framed him to Boot Hill.

2 weeks ago | cowboysindians.com | Joe Leydon

There’s a newcomer in the frontier town of Trinity. And while he’s far from being an outlaw or a hired gun, that doesn’t mean he’s not looking for trouble. Henry Broadway (Brandon Lessard) is his name, and vengeance is his aim. Specifically, he’s looking to make good on a promise he made to his gallows-bound father to find, and kill, the varmint who framed the elder Broadway for a crime he claims never committed.