Harvey Weinstein All the Pretty Horses (2000) For 25 years, I've wanted to see a movie that Harvey Weinstein destroyed. Here are my original notes on the wreckage of Billy Bob Thornton's Cormac McCarthy adaptation, and dismaying footnote.
Looking Elsewhere Specials: Superman footage!; heist flick for Cusack, Thornton. Today's specials: * The trailer for the new Martin Scorsese film about Bob Dylan: No Direction Home. Okay, add THAT to my Christmas list as well. * It's a bird, it's a plane... it's a Christopher Reeve lookalike! * John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton
On Movies & Media Peace Like a River... Starring Bad Santa? Wow. Leif Enger's gorgeous novel Peace Like a River is going to be a movie starring Billy Bob Thornton. I am giddy about this news. Thornton will be great in this role. Now, let's all pray they find some equally talented young actors to play his
Film Reviews All the Pretty Horses (2000) [This review was first published at the original Looking Closer website in December 2000 — long before I learned the painful details of how Harvey Weinstein hacked the life out of it and left us this severely abridged version — and robbed us of an original score by Daniel Lanois.) I still
