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 ...

TORONTO — Viggo Mortensen follows a classic cowboy code in the Western “Appaloosa”: Speak softly and carry a big honkin’ gun. As an Old West lawman, Mortensen packs a booming eight-gauge shotgun in ...

“Course he’s willing to die. You think we do this kinda work ’cause we scared to die?” So speaks Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) about his sidekick Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen), as the two stare down a ...

Halfway through the film, evil rancher Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) eludes the practiced clutches of lawman Virgil Cole (Ed Harris). “I told you you’d never hang me,” Bragg boasts, and Virgil replies, ...

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 ...

Could the Western be making a comeback? Last year offered up “3:10 to Yuma” and “The Assassination of Jesse James,” but it’s probably too soon to cite “Appaloosa” as proof of a trend. Nonetheless, it ...

"Appaloosa" is an old-fashioned Western with all the classic elements -- buddy loyalty, stalwart heroes, despicable villains, plenty of gunfights and marvelous wind-scoured desert landscapes -- marked ...