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  • Hell or High Water

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    I’ll start by saying that I really liked this movie, but I don’t think I agree with the fact that it gets described as a modern western. I mean, I can see why — it’s set in the south (Texas), in a fairly rural part of the state, with wide-open scenery (on the open road),…

  • The Revenant

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    Yeah, I’m ridiculously late to the party in terms of this film, which is surprising since it’s a genre I love (I mean, it is sort of a western, although the “survival” nature really takes over). The movie did in fact blow me away, and has some of the most amazing and mesmerizing shots I’ve…

  • Hostiles

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    This is a fantastic movie — in fact, if I’d watched it last year, it would have been included in my year-end top 5 list. As I’ve written many times, I love westerns (it’s one of my favorite movie genres) and getting a really good new one is relatively rare. For all its brutality, this…

  • Black Panther

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    What is there to say about this that hasn’t been said already. Yes, it’s incredibly entertaining, incredibly well made, and quite possibly the best Marvel film so far (at least that’s how I feel). I didn’t think it could live up to the hype, but I found myself enjoying it immensely from start to finish,…

  • Anon

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    I’ve been very disappointed with a lot of Netflix’s sci-fi releases, especially when it comes to movies, and so came in to this with low expectations, even if I was quite interested in watching it. By the director of Gattaca, it feels stylish in that same way, and has an interesting premise — our eyes…

  • Coogan’s Bluff

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    This was not at all what I thought it would be. I was expecting a modern western, and instead it’s a comedy about a marshal from Arizona experiencing the big city of New York. It’s an awful movie, really, although I think I’m glad I watched it for the sequence in the night club —…

  • Where Eagles Dare

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    I was expecting to really be into this — it’s definitely a setting I love, with a crack commando unit of WW2 soldiers infiltrating a castle full of Nazis (sorta like a mission from the game Commandos). And I did like a bunch of it, but it just felt too long, and I found myself…

  • Andre the Giant

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    HBO released a new documentary about Andre the Giant this week, and it’s quite good. I already know Andre’s story — from being a fan of wresting during that era, as well as the great biographical graphic novel  by Box Brown — but this is a nice round-up of his career, and there were bits…

  • Hang ‘Em High

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    The biggest western (I’d say) from 1968 is Leone’s Once Upon Time in the West, but I watched it a few months ago, and so I’m not including it in my current 1968 movie marathon. I did quite enjoy watching Hang ‘Em High though, which I’d never seen. A classic western, with Eastwood doing what…

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

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    Well, I watched my last 1987 movie on Friday night, and then on Saturday night I was already kicking off a 1968 run with what is THE movie of that year (and one of THE movies of all time). Watching it again now — it had been quite a while since the last time I…