Joel and Ethan Coen discuss their Netflix Western film 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' at the 2018 Venice Film Festival. By Scott Roxborough A love of Westerns, short movies and anthologies led the ...

After years of inaccessibility, Maggie Greenwald's "The Ballad of Little Jo" is newly available on Blu-ray and streaming — here's why that's a cause for celebration. Then something funny happened in ...

On this day (April 7) in 1959, Marty Robbins entered Bradley Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, to record “El Paso.” Released as a single from his album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, it became a ...

Cowboy balladeer Don Edwards has one of those voices that recalls the wide and lonesome prairie. It isn’t the stuff of country music radio, per say, but the songs of the 78-year-old New Jersey-born ...

Ralph Ineson plays "the man in black" in "Near Algodones," the second segment of the Western anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Beginning Nov. 16, the film will play in theaters for a week before ...

Best of the rest of the West The Coen brothers’ new Western grapples with the genre’s history — and their own career While you play Red Dead Redemption 2, make time to read this book Before Red Dead ...

The writer-director's followup to "Dead Man's Burden" is another old-fashioned Western with an unlikely hero. Bill Pullman might not be the most obvious choice for a western hero at this stage of his ...

The Western is the most inherently political genre, and, with “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” their two-hour-plus anthology of six short Westerns, Joel and Ethan Coen have made an exemplary political ...

Joel and Ethan Coen have an erratic body of work but a remarkably consistent worldview. So it's no surprise that their six-part Western anthology, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, feels like both an ...