ReelBob: ‘The Outsider’ ★★ 1/2
By Bob Bloom “The Outsider” is a standard revenge Western with racial overtones and religious underpinnings. The movie, set in a small, nameless town, centers […]
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ReelBob: ‘Hostiles’ ★½
By Bob Bloom For decades, almost since the advent of motion pictures, Native Americans have been stereotypically portrayed as bloodthirsty savages, delightfully scalping settlers, drinking […]
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Sometimes you find a movie that is so silly that it entertains because of its campiness values. Such a movie is “Pony Express,” a 1953 […]
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ReelBob: ‘The Magnificent Seven’
By Bob Bloom Antoine Fuqua’s remake of “The Magnificent Seven” mixes the right amount of traditional Western with enough of a contemporary anticapitalist vibe to […]
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