Harry "Pop" Sherman made his fortune producing several dozen Hopalong Cassidy B-Westerns, but every once in a while spent a good deal more on special films outside the series. These larger budgets allowed for more (semi-)name actors, a more complex story, and bigger-name composers. Buckskin Frontier is one of those. Most of them starred Richard Dix, as does this one, but here he is joined by Albert Dekker and Lee J. Cobb, with a much more prominent leading lady than…
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Hoppy Serves a Writ 1943
Despite a plot with a lot of wiggle room in clarity, this is a pretty above-average Hopalong Cassidy film, based ever-so-loosely on Clarence E. Mulford's last Cassidy novel. Its unprepossessing title pretty much tells the story: Hoppy has to arrest some cattle rustlers but needs to lure them back across the border in order to serve papers on them. Victor Jory and George Reeves are two brothers at the head of the outlaw gang, and Jory gets into a wonderfully…
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Dune 2021
It took many years, but I finally found a science-fiction movie I hated worse than Star Wars. This pseudo-mythic melange of Islamic-Gaelic-Hebrew-Christian nomenclature and ponderous Sir Gawainish “dialog” has virtually no intelligible story beyond the barest framework of presumably good guys in conflict with assortments of monosyllabic bad guys. No effort is evident in making the characters identifiable humans one could connect with emotionally (although Jason Momoa, through force of personality, comes close). It’s all sci-fi fanboy wanking, with all…
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The Banshees of Inisherin 2022
This remarkable tale of loneliness, purpose, and what we now call "unfriending" is another in the stunning emotional explorations by writer-director Martin McDonagh. In a performance that tops anything of his I've ever seen, Colin Farrell is heartbreaking as a provincial Irish lad who cannot understand and will not grasp that his closest friend no longer wants his friendship. As the former friend, Brendan Gleeson is also superb, but the picture really belongs to Farrell, who plays exquisitely the balancing…
