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, ...

Viggo Mortensen, left, and Ed Harris take care of business in the Harris-helmed Western 'Appaloosa.' Legend has it (because "the studio-provided production notes have it" just doesn't sound Western-y ...

“Appaloosa” reunites Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen, only with a lot more history and a little less violence. That’s not to suggest the new Western isn’t a bloody affair: The burly-looking 8-gauge that ...

"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 ...

When Viggo Mortensen begins his voiceover narration in “Appaloosa,” you might wonder whether he just woke up from a nap — but no, it turns out this flat, laid-back delivery is the style of the rest of ...

Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen are both on the right side of the law in “Appaloosa,” but the chemistry they shared as adversaries in 2005’s “A History of Violence” remains. Good thing, too. Aside from ...

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 ...

We can all relax; Ed Harris is not the second coming of Sam Peckinpah. Or Howard Hawks. And lets' just leave John Ford out of the equation entirely. "Appaloosa" is a fair-to-middling western that ...

"Appaloosa" started out making me feel the same as I did during the opening chapters of Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" and its TV miniseries. At its center is a friendship of many years between two ...

Viggo Mortensen, left, and Ed Harris the Western 'Appaloosa,' opening Friday (Oct. 3). So many movies, so little time. New Orleans area movie-goers find themselves again facing a wealth of movie-going ...

WEST SPRINGFIELD — Almost no obstacle proved too much for competitors at Eastern States Exposition on Friday. The horses were participants in the Western Massachusetts Appaloosa Horse Show, a ...