John Wick fans got good news over the summer. Not only is a fourth feature film finally being made, but a whole bunch of JW universe backstory is also inbound with The Continental, a limited series that will air on Starz consisting of three ...
Senator, Directors Move to Ban Guns on Movie Sets After Hutchins Death
Controversy continues to swirl around the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last week on the set of Rust, a Western being filmed in New Mexico. Since the incident on Oct. 23 there have been calls from some in Hollywood and ...
Alec Baldwin Movie-Set Shooting: How Prop Guns SHOULD Be Used
Tragedy struck the New Mexico set of a movie called Rust yesterday, Oct. 21, when an accident involving a prop gun took the life of Halyna Hutchins (above, right), the film's director of photography. Veteran actor Alec Baldwin (30 Rock) reportedly ...
Muzzleloaders in Movies: Hollywood’s Coolest Smoke Poles
Movies that paint muzzleloaders in a badass light are kind of rare. It’s tough to make an exciting action movie with firearms that put out about 3 rounds per minute (flintlock musket) unless it’s a war movie with tons of guns and troops. That’s not ...
The Remington 870 Shotgun: 5 Most Badass Movie Moments
The Remington Model 870 shotgun, usually just called the Remington 870, is one of the most popular pump-action shotguns in history. Since it hit the market in 1950, more than 11 million 870s have rolled off the line, but that progress took a long ...
Why The Hell Are There No Movies About Daniel Boone?!
There's never been a good movie made about frontier legend Daniel Boone. It's true. There were at least five announcements about remakes of movies from the 1980s and 1990s last month, but a guy who led one of the wildest frontier lives of all time ...
California to Open Access to Residents’ Firearm, Gun Parts Purchase Info
A new piece of California legislation signed into law last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom includes a provision that allows academics access to sales data on firearms, gun parts, and ammunition collected by the state for the purpose of conducting gun ...
Legal Age for Handgun Purchases Remains 21 Says Federal Court
This past summer, a federal appeals court ruled that a prohibition on firearm sales to adults under 21 was unconstitutional. Last week, a US appeals court threw out that decision, saying the case is now moot because both plaintiffs in the suit had ...
Colorado Hunting Accident: Muzzleloader Hunter Shoots, Kills Bowhunter
A rifle hunter unintentionally shot and killed a bowhunter chasing elk in Colorado last week. It's the kind of nightmare scenario hunting safety instructors use to drive home the importance of properly identifying your target. On Friday, Sept. 17, ...
More American Monsters: 5 Creepy Creatures Made in the USA
The United States is a large and diverse nation with a rich tapestry of folklore to call its own. Some of it is mystical and whimsical, some of it is terrifying. While a few local legends that make the ol’ neck hair stand on end have roots in other ...
2A Legend Sues D.C. Over ‘Ghost Guns’ and DIY Firearm Ban
When Dick Heller sued Washington D.C. more than a decade ago over the district’s ban on handguns, it resulted in arguably the most important US Supreme Court decision ever regarding gun rights in America. District of Columbia v. Heller cemented the ...
The 8 Best ‘Cabin in the Woods’ Movies of All Time
The good ol' rickety cabin in the woods: The site of many hunting trips, lakeside vacations, and according to Hollywood, fairly frequent bloody killing sprees. This setting has become so common in horror movies that it has been elevated to the status ...
American Monsters: 5 Terrifying, US-Made Original Horrors
You’re alone on a country road covered in fog with no phone and no gun. The piercing cry of something — not animal, not human — sounds in the distant darkness. A chill runs through your veins as your mind conjures up images of cursed forest-dwelling ...
7 Underrated Wilderness Movies You Should Give a Chance
You will find wilderness movies in pretty much every film genre because the wilderness makes a great backdrop for drama. It’s where the usual rules and rhythms of everyday civilized life no longer apply, and when something goes wrong in the wild, ...
Man in the Wilderness: The Other Hugh Glass Movie
The Revenant (TR) was a hugely popular movie released in 2015, and it earned a slew of awards, including three Oscars. It’s a gorgeous, naturally lit film, and it’s certainly an exciting ride, even if it isn’t exactly true to the utterly remarkable ...
Watch: Instructor Pulls Knocked-Out Skydiver’s Chute in Wild Rescue
Remember that part in Point Break when Johnny Utah pulls the ripcord on Bodie's parachute as they plummet toward the terra at terminal velocity? The video below shows something similar happening in real life, only it isn't due to a display of ...
Davy Crockett: The Silver-Screen History of a Frontier Legend
Davy Crockett was one of the biggest characters to come out of the American frontier and one of the few to achieve national fame while still alive. While many stories circulated about the bear hunter from Tennessee amounted to tall tales, his actual ...
7 Great and Criminally Underrated Westerns
There are a whole lot of movies that fit in the broad genre known as Westerns, and they've been around since the dawn of the motion picture industry itself. There have been great Westerns, horrible ones, and a lot that fall somewhere in between. So, ...
‘The Continental’ Will Deliver 3 John Wick Prequels
I’m a movie nerd, and while prequels almost always turn out to be tepid shit when they finally get to the screen, the idea of a prequel never fails to arouse a powerful curiosity in my geek heart. At least until a writer, director, cast, and crew get ...
Old Ammo Found in Sunken Smuggler’s Boat, Internet Goes Wild
What would you do with 1,800 rounds of waterlogged .30 Carbine ammo if it washed up at your feet? These days, more than a few people who would take it to the range and see what happened, even if the crusty rounds were found in the remains of a ...
Meth Trout: Fish Are Getting Hooked on Crank From Our Poop
Fish are getting addicted to meth and are starting to prefer waterways with a little ice in them. Yes, that’s a real thing that’s happening. The fun thing about drugs consumed by human beings — legally or otherwise — is that they’re never ...
The Lasting Horror and Adventure of ‘Jaws’
In the mid-1970s, few thought a one-word-titled horror-adventure flick from an unknown director would eventually become a staple on “best movies of all time” lists — and it actually doesn’t sound much more believable today. But Jaws (1975) undeniably ...
The 7 Best Guns in Clint Eastwood Movies
Clint Eastwood has used a lot of guns on screen. He’s been an avid shooter since the 1960s and cut his teeth on the TV Western Rawhide before making the jump to the big screen. His form isn’t great, and you won’t ever catch him using a two-handed ...
The Death of Big Jake, the World’s Tallest Horse
Remember on Parks and Rec how everyone in the little Indiana town was in love with a miniature horse named Little Sebastian? It was kind of like that for the past 20 years, but in reverse, for residents of a little town in Wisconsin and their beloved ...
John Wick: Chapter 4 Starts Filming – Full Details So Far
It has finally happened. John Wick: Chapter 4 officially began filming this week. It’s been a long wait for fans who'd rejoiced in the pre-pandemic days at the prospect of two huge sequels from Keanu Reeves debuting on the same weekend: JW4 and ...
The Powerful Treatment That Could Help Heal Our Wounded Vets
A bed in white linens sits in the center of a wood floor, lit by soft daylight streaming through large windows. Outside is a still desert landscape pockmarked with scrub brush and cactus. A veteran is on the bed, tattooed, laying still as a ...
Knife Steel: What You Need to Know to Choose the Best Blade for You
Choosing a knife steel is one of those things that if you go down that rabbit hole and get super into it, you're certain to form bizarrely strong opinions and develop weird loyalty for certain alloys. A lot of people fumble around with different ...
Deadwood: Fact vs. Fiction in HBO’s Epic Western
Deadwood is arguably the best Western TV show ever produced. It focuses on the early years of a real gold rush boomtown established from a prospecting camp in the Black Hills area of South Dakota in the 1870s. It was a lawless place, loosely ...
The Coolest Retro RV You’ll Ever See
If there’s an ’80s child hiding inside you somewhere, this photo probably made them squeal a little bit — I know mine did when this killer retro RV popped up on my Reddit feed. There are vibes of the A-Team van on steroids, with hints of the van the ...
Sylvester Stallone Is a National Treasure, and You Can’t Change My Mind
Sylvester Stallone gets a lot of shit. People have been using him as a punchline for years, either because of the way he talks or looks or because of the roles and action movies he’s made famous. I grew up on Stallone and his ...
