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.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...