Jordan Hoffman is a writer at Entertainment Weekly, mostly covering nostalgia. He has been writing about entertainment since 2007.

Clint Eastwood passed on the role, but what happened next turned the 1976 Western into an unforgettable John Wayne farewell.

John Wayne did make movies that are not Westerns, but let's face it: Outside of perhaps Clint Eastwood, there's no actor in history whose name is more synonymous with the genre. Most of the best Wayne ...

There are some pillars of cinema so foundational that everyone knows them, even if they've never seen them in action. There's the misfortune of Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp, there's the chaos of the ...