3:10 to Yuma

Traditional Hollywood, known for its cautious approach, occasionally deserves recognition for doing something brave. One such example occurred in 2007—at a time when, due to the Iraq War, everything American was despised worldwide—it released films belonging to the most American of all American genres: the western. An even riskier move was made by the creators of *3:10 to Yuma*, a remake of the 1957 classic western…

*"A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher."* I love this movie, it is a fantastic pair off with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. While it is set up as a *Good Guy Vs Bad Guy* type of movie, it is really more of a journey of discovery. I probably had you the moment I said Russell Crowe &…

Finally I decided to try seeing a Western that I let cover with dust and cobwebs, why? I do not know, sometimes I just delay a film for a long time, and then I just forget that it's there, to finally rediscover it a long time later, and that's what happened with 3:10 to Yuma. I saw it and I said to myself: a western starring Crowe, Bale and Ben Foster and I have not seen it yet, why? and since I did not have an acce…

I set out to watch this movie after finding out it was shot here in in New Mexico, all within a few hours from Albuquerque. Most of the filming was done around Santa Fe, Abiquiú, and Galisteo. The town of Bisbee in the movie was shot at Bonanza Creek Movie Ranch, which is a often-used film location just South of Santa Fe. Situated on several thousand acres, the ranch has a whole movie town and several frontier home…