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This might be the most consistent of Budd Boetticher's westerns.
Comanche Station does have a lot of similarities with the other Ranown Westerns, and that certainly doesn't help you when it comes to remembering individual films and their plots but...It makes a few changes that makes me appreciate it a little more than if I hadn't seen the rest.
For once, the woman that all the male characters spend most of the film telling each other how pretty she is…
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If I had a nickel for every time I saw a movie from 1932 in which a horrible person gets a gruesome but understandable comeuppance by outcasts they manipulated and hurt, I'd have two nickels. It isn't a lot but it is strange that it's happened twice.
Island of Lost Souls is certainly a horror film but I understand the standards for horror where different at the time (but I didn't really understand that when I saw Freaks). Based on…
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Once or twice a year, I take a chance with a TV show that just came out and seems to be getting rave reviews. This time it was Blue Eye Samurai and given my criticism for American animation, I can't say what I got should surprise me in the least.
Blue Eye Samurai is a frustrating mixed bag. It's a show that promises to be so much but instead ends up constantly shooting itself in the foot. The premise lacks…
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To say this wasn't as good as I heard would be an understatement. Honestly there isn't much to say right now as I just watched it but it felt for the most part that it was trying to manipulate me into feeling things without ever earning it.
The characters were not only generic but poorly developed and motivated. I still don't see why all these people are friends and why they hold Menma's death over themselves as a burden like…
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