Nothing fills a film fan with as much dread as a remake of one of their favourite movies. Too often, our cinema screens are bombarded with horrendous “reimaginings” – think Lilo & Stitch (2025), ...

True Grit is less a remake and more another adaptation of the same novel as the original True Grit film. That first movie was quite successful, but you could argue the 2010 version surpassed it. When ...

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 ...

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 ...

Charles Portis’s wonderful comic novel True Grit (1968) had the combined fortune and misfortune of being instantly made into a John Wayne western, which won the star his first Oscar and ultimately ...

John Wayne had a very specific vision that he chased across his productions. However, he took on into this creative mode even on movies that weren’t his to control. Wayne wanted to bring his daughter, ...