True Grit is one of John Wayne‘s most memorable roles. The Western star played a tough U.S. Marshal, alongside costars Glen Campbell and Kim Darby. The movie’s story seems so realistic that many have ...
After a slow start, the Coen brothers' Oscar contender is gaining traction at the box office. By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer True Grit and The Blind Side make for unlikely bedfellows, but ...
The Coen Brothers have made a name for themselves by effortlessly moving between genres, taking traditional narrative structures, and injecting them with their signature ironic snark. They've often ...
It’s hard to imagine bigger boots to fill than the ones that earned John Wayne his Oscar in “True Grit,” and yet Jeff Bridges handily reinvents the iconic role of Rooster Cogburn in the Coen brothers’ ...
Henry Hathaway directed True Grit from Marguerite Roberts’ screenplay based on Charles Portis’ novel. It’s a story of revenge after Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) murders the father of an independent 14-year ...
Call them buttonhole books, the ones you urge passionately on friends, colleagues and passersby. All readers have them -- and so do writers. This summer, NPR.org talks with authors about their ...
True Grit is one of those movies that does everything so well, that you hardly notice that it is doing it. The best way to describe this film is to say that it is smooth. From start to finish there is ...
True Grit may have been unfairly snubbed by the Golden Globes, but this remake of the 1969 classic scores pretty high in our book. And wow, True Grit star fourteen-year-old Hailee Steinfeld just blew ...
True Grit is the last thing you'd ex­pect from the movies' most resolutely ironic brother act, the writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen: a labor of love. They set out to adapt Charles Portis's ...