Blu-ray Review: True Grit (2010)
Most of the time I detest remakes; however, True Grit proves they don’t have to be bad. The Coen Brothers’ interpretation of the 1968 Charles Portis novel is superior in almost every way to the 1969 Henry Hathaway version. While no actor could ever hope to eclipse John Wayne’s performance as Marshall Rooster Cogburn (the […]
2010’s True Grit Coming to Blu-ray and DVD
Paramount Home Entertainment has announced the western True Grit for Blu-ray release on June 7, in a BD/DVD/Digital Copy combo pack. This new adaptation of the novel by Charles Portis (previously brought to the screen by Henry Hathaway in 1969), was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, although it came out of the Oscar ceremony empty-handed.
Blu-ray Review: True Grit
Paramount Pictures | 1969 | 127 mins. | G Sixty-two year-old John Wayne’s Best Actor Oscar in 1969, for True Grit has generally been considered as a belated, long-overdue ‘career’ Oscar award or ‘sentimental favorite’ award. That reasoning is hard to argue with—long a box office superstar, True Grit was Wayne’s 139th film, and only […]