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#westernwednesday THE BIG COUNTRY (1958) is fantastic. This is an all-timer of a Western. Anyone trying to master widescreen composition should study what William Wyler does here. Peck, Heston, Simmons and especially Burl Ives are exceptional. Complex themes of violence and masculinity. Greatness!

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Just took the whole family to see Buster Keaton's THE GENERAL at Peery's Egyptian Theater in Ogden, UT, a bona fide 100-year old movie palace. Screen properly masked. Live accompaniment on a loud-as-hell Wurlitzer organ. Audience laughing. A top-tier moviegoing experience. Please give me more!

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Lawyer/detective/journalist is uninterested in a seemingly routine case/story until the moment someone orders them to stop looking into it AND THEN THEY CANNOT BE STOPPED.

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Western Wednesday: MAN FROM DEL RIO (1956) Excellent Anthony Quinn as a Mexican gunfighter in an all-white town. They like his way with a gun enough to make him sheriff to fight off the rifraff they're scared of, but have no intention of making him part of the community. GREAT final showdown.

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On an already great podcast, when @tasharobinson.bsky.social opened the convo by asking for favorite less-known superheroes, I said to myself "Gotta be Squirrel Girl and Nightcrawler" and then she and @genevievekoski.bsky.social spent the next 5 mins talking Squirrel Girl and Nightcrawler! Heaven!

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Ghost Protocol Fallout Rogue Nation Mission: Impossible III Dead Reckoning II (And the only place there is a significant gap is between Dead Reckoning and II)

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tbh this really explains trump brain, he genuinely doesn’t understand grift as a concept because it’s so ingrained into How To Do Business

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Today I am feeling: CLUE GAME NIGHT and BERRY GORDY'S THE LAST DRAGON

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Dr. Oz: "We're not getting our money's worth" on treating chronic illness? Please accept my invitation to fuck all the way off. These people are villains.

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Western Wednesday: THE GUNFIGHTER (1950) is a perfect movie. Gregory Peck as a notorious "gunny" tired of his fame and the violence of his past and just wants to leave it behind. No one will let him. Incredible. (Amazing Criterion art by @jenniferdionisio.com & essay by @melvillmatic.bsky.social)

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I recently went on a Spielberg completist tear and I know they're obscure but I have to stump for SAVAGE (TV movie/pilot) and his segment of TWILIGHT ZONE as the only things I don't think I could bear to watch again.

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Western Wednesday: John Ford's WAGON MASTER (1950) is everything I want in a Western. Mormon wagon trains! Outlaws! Incredible images of Moab AND Monument Valley! Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr and Ward Bond! See this one if you haven't. A peak movie of the peak decade of the genre.

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Great article on the acting of Tom Hardy, one of our best Nicolas Cage-level weirdos: slate.com/culture/2025... (from @isaacbutler.bsky.social )

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I can't be the only one who immediately thought "Pope le Pew."

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I forgot to post my Western Wednesday! In a better world, we would have a dozen Westerns teaming Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott, but at least we have 1982's THE SHADOW RIDERS, a very fun adventure with the two as Civil War vet brothers (from different sides!) fighting raiders on their family land.

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Vulture Cinematrix No. 384: Apr 14, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2604 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem... #vultureflowgrid

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Western Wednesday: STELLAR WESTERN ALERT! A contempo (for 1957) Western, Jeff Chandler is a rural county sheriff investigating the murder of a Mexican worker on big bad land baron Orson Welles' ranch. The town wants him to stop digging because the evil rich guy promises economic prosperity. 1/2

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Western Wednesday: It will surprise no one that our movie this week was 1993's TOMBSTONE, featuring the late Val Kilmer's greatest performance as Doc Holliday. What was weird was that we had already planned to watch it in preparation for our visit to the real town next week. Anyway, perfect Western.

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Chris Claremont's X-Men run

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Not that I need an excuse to go watch old Westerns, but I decided to make Western Wednesday a thing at my house. 1st up was this blast from 1966. A slam bang "end of the West" action Western, with Lancaster, Marvin, Ryan and Strode as one of the great "we're gonna need a team" lineups of all time.

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The decisive test of our society in my lifetime was the 2024 election and our failure was spectacular and total. I will never again have any faith in the American electorate to do the obviously right thing.

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I like to remind myself how lucky I am to have a local theater that shows classic silent films with live accompaniment on a huge Wurlitzer organ. They did a Buster Keaton program last night with SEVEN CHANCES and ONE WEEK and there is truly nothing like laughing with a crowd in a full theater.

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I don't know why exactly our local theater chain is showing both DUNE movies this week but we just watched part one for the first time since it came out and good lord that is a great theatrical experience. Part two tomorrrow!

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