What moved Joel and Ethan Coen to adapt Charles Portis’s 1968 novel True Grit for the screen anew, 40-plus years after John Wayne made the one-eyed Marshall “Rooster” Cogburn his own? My guess is that ...

The film’s take on guns, law and self-reliance are similar to stances taken by the populist political movement, argues Daniel Menaker. By Tim Appelo Hailee Steinfeld (with Matt Damon) was chosen for ...

True Grit takes place after a hired hand named Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) kills 14-year-old Mattie Ross’ (Kim Darby) father. As a result, she seeks revenge on him and hires U.S. Marshal “Rooster” Cogburn ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Based on the novel by Charles Portis. A remake of the John Wayne western classic. Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross’s (Hailee Steinfeld) father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh ...