“Appaloosa” contains seemingly every well-worn cliche of the Western. There are the strong, silent gunmen and the sassy woman who’s more afraid of them dying than they are themselves. There’s the ...
No sound lightens a moviegoer’s heart more than pounding hoofbeats heard before the opening credits. A western is about to begin, and, if everything goes right, nothing can be better than that.
Modestly made and leisurely paced (almost to a fault), Ed Harris’ “Appaloosa” is as much a buddy picture as it is tumbling-tumbleweeds Western, though Harris is quick to tip his cowboy hat to ...
LITTLE ROCK — Ed Harris' second directorial feature, Appaloosa, is a far cry from his first, 2000's bio-pic Pollock, as well as the sort of movie rarely made anymore, a classical Western that invites ...
It’s not a great Western, but “Appaloosa” is the only Western in town. It’s also one of the rarest of modern movies: a “routine” Western. Fans of the genre should give thanks that, for once, the ...
The first trailer for Ed Harris' western Appaloosa has been released. Last year when both 3:10 to Yuma and Assassination of Jesse James hit theaters, I predicted that the western genre might be ...
"Appaloosa" starts as a low-key Western for grown-ups with a story so simple you could almost describe it as minimalist. In a perfunctory opening scene, a corrupt rancher (Jeremy Irons) kills a ...
GALISTEO, N.M. — AUTHENTIC westerns feature authentic dirt -- muddy chaps, weather-beaten storefronts and hair that’s far from blow-dry clean. But the dust storms that occasionally raged during the ...
In a time when many writers and directors are visiting the Old West to create cautionary tales or social commentaries, or even just to make epic, Oscar-worthy films set in dusty, tumbleweed-ridden ...
Appaloosa is the sort of solid, simple Western that Hollywood used to crank out 20 times a year. Ed Harris, working from a Robert Parker novel, has crafted a meticulously detailed, newfangled ...
No sound lightens a moviegoer’s heart more than pounding hoofbeats heard before the opening credits. A western is about to begin, and, if everything goes right, nothing can be better than that.
Ed Harris stars in and directs Appaloosa, a Western based on Robert B. Parker's novel. Harris plays Virgil Cole, a gunslinger who roams the west with his shotgun-toting saddle pal Everett Hitch (Viggo ...
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