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WEEK 29 - THE PROFESSIONALS

Friday. It makes so much more sense than the (previously traditional) Thursday slot when you remember you have no Essex train journeys...

WEEK 28 - BLACKTHORN (2011)

Less than 24 hours after rolling the dice to determine that I'd be watching 'Blackthorn' for my next western, I found myself at Bernard's...

WEEK 27 - THE HOMESMAN (2014)

WATERY BEGINNINGS Week 27 nearly didn't happen at all after my afternoon walk around York found me ignoring this sign just outside the...

WEEK 26 - GREED (1924)

As freezing fog wrapped its icy tendrils around the Vale of York on a classically bleak mid January afternoon, only one thing could lift...

WEEK 25 (PART 2/2) - SEVEN MEN FROM NOW

Sunday evenings have rarely been better. Off work on the Monday. Suddenly the Antiques Roadshow theme tune seems less threatening. Add...

WEEK 25 (Part 1 of 2) - DESTRY RIDES AGAIN

INTRO / EXPERIMENT 1 To celebrate the quarter way point of our Wine, Wotsits, Western Adventure (well, if I hadn't recently added ten new...

WEEK 24 - 3 GODFATHERS : #WWWSI CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

DEPRESSING INTRO I'd been in a real mental slump on the eve of this festive special, what with all this Tier 4 nonsense, talk of ...

WEEK 23 - WINCHESTER '73

Did somebody say Just Eat? Yes, it was time to drag myself kicking and screaming into the 21st century world of online takeaway food...

WEEK 22 - HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER

Yeehaw, saddle on up, get the bar-keep to pour you a couple of fingers of Sarsaparilla and help me relive the tale of Week 22 of my epic...

WEEK 21 - THE OX-BOW INCIDENT

I'd like to start on a rare sincere note whilst I'm in whimsical mood, and let you all know what a tonic this #WWWSI venture has been in...

WEEK 20 - EL DORADO

Not to be confused with the early 90's cringe-fest soap opera of same name (minus the space bar and Jesse Birdsall), El Dorado was film...

WEEK 19 - LONE STAR

How could it be that the film generally regarded as 'the high point of independent 90s cinema' (cos Wikipedia said so) be so difficult to...

WEEK 18 - BEND OF THE RIVER

With the November shuttage of pubbage, #WWWSI was brought forward from the traditional Sunday evening slot to the more anti-social yet...

WEEK 17 - DANCES WITH WOLVES

The #WWWSI stars seemed to align for this Hallowe'en Special as tonight's film, the supposed 32nd greatest Western of all time, fitted in...

WEEK 16 - APPALOOSA

If like me, the gentle strains of Antiques Roadshow, Countryfile and Songs of Praise are so synonymous with a Sunday afternoon/evening,...

WEEK 15 - THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE

Excitement was rife at Wotsit Towers (the rebranded BRAPA towers) last Sunday evening, as the dice rolling to decide on this week's...

WEEK 14 - SHANGHAI NOON

What I like about this list of 100 Westerns off the Rotten Tomatoes website is that it gives you a nice broad spectrum of 'styles' of...

WEEK 13 - GIANT

It was time for a #WWWSI night for the first time in over three weeks. The truth is, what with the pubs reopen and the British Real Ale...

WEEK 12 - TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER

"Mad as a bag of spiders" sums it up pretty nicely really. The fact I had to get this second hand on DVD shows what a cult classic it...

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