Buck – by An Eventful Life

Overall, it was a very well-done documentary that told its story effectively and touchingly. The director seemed to know that Buck Brannaman’s personality was intriguing and charismatic enough to carry the whole film, and let him talk for long chunks of time. He comes across as a truly extraordinary person who’s risen above a horrific childhood to develop a real gift for handling horses.
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Danny – by She Moved to Texas

Us hunter/jumper gals don’t get a lot of movies that are really about the hunters. Barrel racing, regular racing, cross country, let’s face it pretty much every discipline is more exciting to your average movie viewer (maybe not western pleasure)… but Danny is a movie focused solely on the hunters.
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The Long Shot – by An Eventful Life

So now let me tell you that this movie is about a woman who rides dressage. She moves to California with her loser husband and her diamond in the rough Grand Prix horse, who promptly abandons her and her daughter to live in a motel. She gets a job working for a legendary trainer, mucking stalls, teaching lessons, etc., and overcomes a series of setbacks on her way to being the feistest, cleverest, horse whispering-est horse expert ever.
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