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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you like your westerns old-school, beautifully photographed on authentic locations and gloriously cast, you can’t do much better than Ed Harris’ “Appaloosa.” Based on a 2005 novel by Robert B.

During the production of "Appaloosa," Ed Harris wrote this little song just for fun. It ended up getting used at the end of the credits. "You’ll Never Leave My Heart," performed by Ed Harris. Lyrics ...

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.