TORONTO (AP) -- Viggo Mortensen follows a classic cowboy code in the new movie Western "Appaloosa": Speak softly and carry a big honkin' gun. As an Old West lawman, Mortensen packs a booming ...

“Course he’s willing to die. You think we do this kinda work ’cause we scared to die?” So speaks Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) about his sidekick Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen), as the two stare down a ...

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 ...

There are plenty of classic, beloved westerns, but there are also some westerns that people don't talk about much anymore ...

"Appaloosa" continues in the modern tradition of serious westerns tearing away at myths and exploring the gritty reality of our past. Though I don't believe "Appaloosa" is the ...

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, ...