Danny Cox has never seen a movie in his entire life. The recently passed Cormac McCarthy is known to most movie fans for No Country for Old Men. His novel became the film many would call the Coen ...

Faced with a choice of blunt instruments with which to beat a good book into a bad movie, director Billy Bob Thornton chooses heavy, random, arty imagery and a leaden pace to thwack All the Pretty ...

Acclaimed writer Cormac McCarthy is dead at age 89. He died at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of natural causes, his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, confirmed to multiple outlets. In addition to being ...

The horses are loved and well cared-for: A carriage driver returns her horse Star to a stall at Clinton Stables on the far West Side. AP When Hollywood gives us an animal film, it’s not enough to have ...

One of the most-seen public artworks in the state looks pretty straightforward to most viewers: 15 life-size metal horses galloping across a ridge along the Columbia River. More than 5 million ...

Aaron Copland, best known for his classical compositions, brought the song into the concert world by arranging it as part of his Old American Songs. His version added depth and grace while keeping the ...

"All the Pretty Horses" is a half-broken adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's great modern Western novel. Neither dull nor exciting, this long-in-the-works tale of two Texas boys who get all the trouble ...

The praises and prizes awarded Cormac McCarthy’s novel “All the Pretty Horses” represent the fruit of one of the more successful literary snow jobs of our time. Why were people snookered by that book?

This much-storied and long-in-the-making film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's widely cherished Western novel is neither the sacrilege that McCarthy's true believers feared nor the epiphany for which ...

Word came down from Washington, D.C., last week: No more horse slaughterhouses in the United States. To which most people responded, “Are there horse slaughterhouses in the United States?” Yes, there ...