The Criterion Collection has issued both The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Red River recently, and though the two would seemingly have little in common, it turns out there are a number of parallels.  Both films begin with the …

If you’re a fan of Westerns and/or John Wayne, you’ll want to pay close attention.  Warner Bros. Home Entertainment just released a massive DVD box set titled John Wayne: The Epic Collection that features a whopping 40 John Wayne films, …

Tommy Lee Jones (The Homesman) is set to write and direct a remake of Mark Rydell’s 1972 film, The Cowboys.  In the original, John Wayne stars as rancher Wil Anderson who attempts to drive his cattle herd to market before suffering financial ruin. …

The great thing about a hit film hitting DVD or Blu-ray is that often you’ll get tied in releases of similar (and usually older) titles. Perhaps Paramount would have eventually gotten to A Man Called Horse, Rio Lobo, Big Jake …

Watching 1969’s much heralded epic True Grit, starring John Wayne, Glenn Campbell and Kim Darby, I felt the filmmakers missed a golden opportunity to create a true western masterpiece – in the vein of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven and John Ford’s …

The Coen Brothers have chosen Hailee Steinfeld to play the crucial lead role of Mattie Ross in True Grit according to Variety.  Paramount Pictures put out a nationwide open casting call for the part and now the Coens have their …

[Disclaimer: All commenting on this story must make at least one reference to “The Big Lebowski”] Who do you get to fill the massive boots of John Wayne, especially when Wayne won his only Oscar for that particular massive boot-wearing …

To state something obvious, unless you die, you get old, and may live long enough to outlive your usefulness. Hemmingway had a solution. When he felt he couldn’t write, fight, or fuck like he used to, he decided he’d rather …