Desperado (1995) is an action-packed, stylized crime thriller directed by Robert Rodriguez. The film stars Antonio Banderas as the mysterious, guitar-playing hitman known as El Mariachi, who seeks ...

Funny, in a way, that Desperado isn’t much talked about as a contemporary Western. Maybe it was by default when it first came out, and maybe 30 years is too long for the word “contemporary” to still ...