“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 ...

"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 ...

Viggo Mortensen, left, and Ed Harris take care of business in the Harris-helmed Western 'Appaloosa.' Legend has it (because "the studio-provided production notes have it" just doesn't sound Western-y ...

Few movie sounds are more appealing than pounding hoofbeats heard before the opening credits: A Western is about to start, and if everything goes right, nothing can be better than that. Appaloosa, the ...

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 ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

“Appaloosa,” Ed Harris’ Western, reminded me of one of those spare Magnetic Fields ballads that cracks a joke or two on the way to ripping your heart in half. It’s a surprisingly funny film and even a ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. David Lee Jensen wears a trench coat. He has a long unruly beard beneath the shadow of his cowboy ...

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.