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), ...

The original "True Grit" received only one Oscar nomination besides the one for best actor, for a song by Elmer Bernstein and Don Black. But that prize went to Burt Bacharach and Hal David for ...

"True Grit" is one of the most mainstream, crowd-pleasing films Joel and Ethan Coen have ever made. It's sort of a screwball Western, if you will, with vivid performances and strikingly vast, ...

In June of 1969, Paramount Pictures released the film, “True Grit”, staring John Wayne as US Marshall, Rooster Cogburn, Glen Campbell as Texas Ranger La Boeuf, and Kim Darby as Mattie Ross, the ...

It would seem that the two most widely discussed films this summer are both going to be Westerns, The Wild Bunch and True Grit. “Widely” is the operative word because the Western is one kind of film ...

The further adventures of 'True Grit' Rooster Cogburn which has him battling injustice in his own unorthodox way while contending with a teenage girl bent on reforming him.

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...