Films in Review

Saw #BendoftheRiver. These characters’ protean nature, the fact that they’re good, & loyal, & then not, at all …

… really forces me out of complacency, comfort zones, & the reassuring clichés of so many commercial movies.

#BendoftheRiver. Lots of Westerns feature generic shoot-’em-ups, that you don’t quite take seriously …

… This one, this series, is much more troubling in its use of violence, which we’ll at once welcome & abhor.

#BendoftheRiver. It’s tough to decide which is the best of these Mann/Stewart Westerns. Then you remember …

… that such hierarchies are often commercially motivated, ideologically suspect, & just plain unnecessary …

… Why choose? What a treasure, collectively!