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 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 ...

True Grit saw Wayne play the legendary Rooster Cogburn, a frequently inebriated and stern U.S. marshal, who 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) seeks out after her father’s murder. Together, they hunt ...

Always a John Wayne fan, I became a bigger one after watching "True Grit" and associating it with the region in which I was raised. Set in the 1880s, Charles Portis' 1968 novel describes 14-year-old ...