In a time when many writers and directors are visiting the Old West to create cautionary tales or social commentaries, or even just to make epic, Oscar-worthy films set in dusty, tumbleweed-ridden ...

“Appaloosa” started out making me feel the same as I did during the opening chapters of Larry McMurtry’s “Lonesome Dove” and its TV miniseries. At its center is a friendship of many years between two ...