HOLLYWOOD >> Tommy Lee Jones has made one wild-haired Western out of Glendon Swarthout’s novel “The Homesman.” It’s primarily about how life on the frontier tended to drive women crazy, even the ones ...

Tommy Lee Jones’ second movie as a director is no conventional Western. Look no further than the direction traveled by the film’s characters – west to east – for confirmation. The Homesman is a story ...

There is a prescient shot that opens “The Homesman,” the spare frontier drama starring Hilary Swank and Tommy Lee Jones. A flat stretch of Nebraska plain, a blanket of blue-gray sky, as if God himself ...

“There’s been some trouble about the women hereabouts,” says John Lithgow’s plains preacher in Tommy Lee Jones’ “The Homesman.” The hereabouts is a tiny, hardscrabble settlement in the Nebraska ...

. First, the good news: It's beautiful. The prairie landscapes -- glimpsed in glowing twilight, stark daylight and at magical midnight -- are magnificent. (The cinematographer is Rodrigo Prieto, who ...

Hilary Swank is a real looker in ways that tend not to get her cast in what the industry is pleased to call "women's pictures." She has seized the day to snag all manner of bracingly offbeat roles, ...

Tommy Lee Jones and Hilary Swank in 'The Homesman' a film of "melancholy poetry" Here, in his second film as a director, consolidating his credentials as a director-actor after his impressive ...

The new film The Homesman is set in the pioneer days of the American West. It was directed by Tommy Lee Jones, who called on his regular composers, Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, for the music. But ...

Actress Hilary Swank is known to play characters who avoid clichés: strong, independent women whose actions are not dictated by men. They are often in search — often at a high price — of finding their ...

Academy Award nominated composer Marco Beltrami brings raw emotion to THE HOMESMAN. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones, the film’s all-star cast includes Jones, Hilary Swank, Meryl Streep, and Hailee ...

An alternate title for the bleak Western “The Homesman” could be, “Little Insane Asylum on the Prairie.” It would be hard to imagine a more dire look at the Old West than this dusty road movie. It ...

RANGE ROVERS: Swank and Jones take a long, strange trip in one of fi lm history’s bleakest westerns. Tommy Lee Jones’ face is a national treasure, is it not? Each passing year adds to its ...