I do not know the Coen brothers. I'm told they are big-time movie-directing/writing types and have done great work. I'm sure they have no idea why some ink-stained dude from middle America would take ...

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 ...

Matt Damon came up with a simple but effective trick to portray having a tongue injury in the Coen Brothers movie True Grit.

"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, ...

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 ...

The original “True Grit” movie is turning 50. A film that John Wayne used as a vehicle to win his only Academy Award, “True Grit” was released June 11, 1969. Wayne, who starred as Rooster Cogburn in ...

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 ...

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.