Clint Eastwood and Robert Duvall must have been busy because “Blackthorn” gives Sam Shepard the sort of part they would usually play. An outlaw cooling his heels in Bolivia while he thinks about the ...

In the distance, two lone figures on horseback ride across a vast expanse of land and sky. The two men are the legendary Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard), now an old man, and Eduardo Apodaca (Eduardo ...

What if Butch and Sundance didn't die in that standoff with the Bolivian military in 1908? That's the starting point for the new western "Blackthorn" (opening October 14 at Landmark's La Jolla Village ...

In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen ...

Eli Cash thus described his novel “Old Custer”: “Everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is...maybe he didn’t!” "Blackthorn" is, effectively, a film of that joke.

Ahead of the 10th Tribeca Film Festival starting April 20th, indieWIRE is again spotlighting emerging (and some veteran) filmmakers screening new work at this year’s event. Wednesday’s new director ...

In the “True Grit”-ty revisionist Western “Blackthorn,” Sam Shepard plays the title role, an American outlaw in Bolivia, who is in fact Robert LeRoy Parker, also known as Butch Cassidy. He wasn’t ...

In the opening scenes of “Blackthorn,” the old desperado who gives this mostly satisfying Western its name is bent over a letter, writing of coming back home to the U.S. Though he’s grown gray he ...

In the opening scenes of “Blackthorn,” the old desperado who gives this mostly satisfying western its name is bent over a letter, writing of coming back home to the U.S. Though he’s grown gray, he ...