Appaloosa

As Appaloosa opens, Marshall Jack Bell (Bobby Jauregui) and two deputies confront rancher Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons) about a couple of his hands.  Seems they’ve killed a man and raped and killed his wife.  Bragg refuses to hand them over — he says he can’t spare them — and when Bell insists, the rancher kills [...]

Some of My Favorites of ‘07

Unlike a real critic, I don’t have to go to movies I don’t think I’m going to like. I don’t have an editor assigning me films to review, nor do I feel the need to see everything, so I can warn the public–the members of which don’t listen to critics anyway–not to waste its [...]