A mediocre film might be excused somewhat by the merit of some ambition, but the problem with "Old Henry" is that there isn’t enough of that either. In “Old Henry,” Patsy Ponciroli has written and ...

Tim Blake Nelson in the Western OLD HENRY. Courtesy of Shout! Studios and Hideout Pictures. The classic Western rides again, with Tim Blake Nelson playing a quiet widowed farmer with teen-aged son on ...

The "elevated Western" Old Henry stars Tim Blake Nelson as a farmer in the Oklahoma Territory whose past comes back to haunt his adversaries. When the movie "Old Henry" premiered at the Venice Film ...

A version of this story about Tim Blake Nelson first appeared in “Dark Horses We Love” section in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine. Ask Tim Blake Nelson about the Western genre, and ...

Character actor Tim Blake Nelson may have found his niche in memorable turns recalling the heyday when Westerns ruled the roost in Hollywood. Or at least in Venice, where this film festival once again ...

In the new western, ‘Old Henry,’ Tim Blake Nelson plays Henry, an Oklahoma farmer who has lost his wife, but still works his land with his teenage son. Henry has a past he refuses to share with his ...

The Western is a film genre that has exerted an irresistible pull over the decades to filmmakers interested in action and adventure. But it’s also uniquely suited to deliver an elegy or a lament for ...

“Old Henry,” starring the great character actor Tim Blake Nelson, is an homage to classic Western movies from writer and director Potsy Ponciroli. Fans of those films will recognize right away what's ...

In Old Henry, Tim Blake Nelson is the titular frontiersman, living a hermetic life, with only his son for company. His most central role since the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Blake ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In “Old Henry,” Patsy Ponciroli has written and directed a western which contains all the mechanisms for strong storytelling — but ...

Henry McCarty (Nelson) has been through a lot. You can get a sense of it just by looking at him when he first appears in Old Henry: gaunt, dirty, seemingly perpetually aggrieved and clearly won’t take ...