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  1. 7 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

    Initial reviews haven't been great but need more of them. The Nicolas Cage to really keep an eye on this year is Dream Scenario, which has been getting rave reviews, better than Pig or Mandy and better than his more recently good, more accessible films like The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and Renfield.

    It might not wind up very good, but I'll take any Western I can get.

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  2. On 10/12/2023 at 11:29 AM, thewhyteboar said:

    Quite enjoyed that bio. It put a lot of things on my watchlist, gotta see if so can find a copy of Noon Wine. I really have no idea how Peckinpah managed to make any movies with how he treated studios and how they treated him (not to mention his own addiction issues). I know The Wild Bunch is his masterpiece, but I still maintain that Pat Garret and Billy the Kid is truly his best. It is a perfect eulogy and coda to the West, not just the West as a time and place, but also an elegy to the genre. 
     

    I started The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, by Michael Ondaatje. 

    That is something that’s gonna stay in my guts for awhile. The book is a mix of prose and poetry, telling the story of Billy from his point of view. The violence is deeply visceral—some of the most disturbing passages I’ve ever read—while the moments of calm can be just as neatly serene. I read a Kindle version but I think I’ll need to get a print version someday that I can mark up. 
     

    I started Ride the Pink Horse, by Dorothy B. Hughes. It’s supposed to be a classic crime/noir story. 

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