Atomic Popcorn (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
It seems the genre of the Western is slowly being brought back to life. Last year saw the release of the remake of 3:10 to Yuma , and now we have Appaloosa , another great addition to the ranks of those horse-ridin’ and gun-slingin’ movie heroes. “Yuma” had two great stars headlining…
ComingSoon.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Walt Disney Pictures scored first place with its new family comedy, Beverly Hills Chihuahua , which opened to an estimated $29 million from 3,215 theaters. Starring Piper Perabo and featuring the voices of Drew Barrymore, George Lopez, Andy Garcia, Cheech Marin and Paul Rodriguez, the Raja Gosnell-directed film marks the eighth-biggest debut for the month of October ever.
Diary From England (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was a big fan of the tv series, “Brideshead Revisited”. It was probably one of the greatest tv adaptations of a classic British novel ever created. The series featured the cream of British acting talent including Anthony Andrews, Jeremy Irons, Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. Based on one of the most celebrated books in English literature by Evelyn Waugh, the tv series enjoyed great success,...
New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
For a boy who was taught to read by age 3, Christopher Paolini's logged a lot of time between hard and soft covers. But it wasn't until he started reading fantasy, he says, that his love of literature took flight. So did his writing. By 15, the...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
"It's our turn now," says the young soldier at the end of Brideshead Revisited, and so it is. Do not mind the old incumbents who moan that Diana Quick can never be robbed of her role as Julia Flyte, or that Jeremy Irons conveyed more emotion as Charles Ryder. Instead, there is a fashionable distaste for barmy old faith and self-restraint. Brideshead has become better looking and more shallow.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
The film based on Evelyn Waugh's classic 1945 novel, Brideshead Revisited is heading to cinemas for the first time.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
"Appaloosa" is half a good Western.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Directed by Ed Harris, written by Harris and Robert Knott, adapted from the novel by Robert B. Parker. With Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger and Jeremy Irons. Distributed by Warner Bros./New Line.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
WHEN YOU look over Ed Harris' extensive filmography, it's surprising how few Westerns he's made. He seems ideally suited for the genre - rugged, serious, don't talk much - and his new film, "Appaloosa," which he also co-wrote and directed, gives him a great chance to act tough, ride horses and chase bad guys.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
"Appaloosa" is the sort of solid, simple Western that Hollywood used to crank out 20 times a year. Ed Harris, working from a Robert Parker novel, has crafted a meticulously detailed, newfangled old-fashioned morality tale about hard men who go soft when a woman comes between them.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Twenty-seven years ago, ITV's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited drew huge viewing audiences - but can the film compete?
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Virtually all Waugh's ideas have been turned on their head. The adapters seem to have felt they know better than the man who wrote the original. And you know what? They don't.
USA Today (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Clothes make the man, they say. But they especially make the cowboy. Not every modern-day actor can pull off the frontier look. ...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
TORONTO - It took him eight years, but Ed Harris finally got to direct another movie. "Appaloosa," a loping, likable Old West yarn about friendship, power, corruption and a woman with fierce instincts for self-preservation, is something the four-time Oscar-nominated actor cottoned to (as they say in those oaters) when he read Robert B. Parker's novel back in 2005.
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
'Appaloosa' {4stars}Ed Harris co-wrote, directed and stars in this old-school Western about a hired gun (Harris) and his partner (Viggo Mortensen) who bring justice to a town besieged by an outlaw (Jeremy Irons, having a ball). Their lives are complicated by the arrival of a woman (Renee Zellweger). Harris and Mortensen are good, the latter especially so. (R - 114 minutes) P,V.
