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We are all looking for new shows to binge so I thought today’s TQOTD would be interesting.

John Wayne, Paul Newman star in new Briscoe exhibit that looks at Hollywood Westerns Deborah Martin, Staff writer FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Movie stills from “True Grit,” for which John Wayne received his sole Oscar, are on display in “Still in the Saddle: A New History of the Hollywood Western” at the Briscoe Western Art Museum.Jessica Phelps /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Wax figures of John Wayne as he appeared in “True Grit” and Dustin Hoffman in “Little Big...

The Texas folk-rock duo takes on the dust-filled frontier tales of Louis L’Amour

Article content On May 25, 2020, the world gasped as George Floyd struggled for air. His final words, “I can’t breathe,” sparked an urgent conversation about how racism and discrimination permeate so many facets of our lives. Here, in a four-part occasional series, we dive deep into the lack of diversity in key municipal institutions — including schools, health care, city hall and the media — and how we can do better. • • • Try refreshing your browser, or The stories the media ...

Pearl Harbor Is the Greatest Guilty Pleasure Movie of All Time Armageddon, Transformers films.” Yeah, I’m a sucker for all things Michael Bay. The man makes entertaining movies flawlessly designed for the theater-going experience. I freely admit I saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen four times when it was released in 2009, and even uncharacteristically defended it against Roger Ebert’s vicious, though on point, attacks. From a critical perspective, everything Bay does is wrong. His c...

Did you know there were two big films titled “Lone Star”? We’ve added an alphabetized list of key movies about Texas. Texans adore movies about Texas and Texans.  In my May 10 “Think, Texas” column ("Starring Texas: What you can learn about the state through its movies"), I tried to sort out what it means to be a “Texas movie,” and argued that such a film must be about our state, not just shot here. It must tell us something about who we are.  I applied that standard ...

They wonder sometimes. When your whole mission is rooted in the act of threading physical celluloid through the guts of clunky antiquated projectors, when your group was founded to promote the “unsimulated experience” of showing film stock to a room full of strangers, you are at the mercy of knowledge. A while ago, when a guy in Iowa offered them a bunch of old 16mm projectors that he had acquired from a school district there, they bought them, not entirely knowing what they would do ...

The Americanization of the Israeli-Palestinian Debate Matti Friedman Rereading Exodus, the schmaltzy 1958 best seller about Israel that became a Hollywood movie starring Paul Newman, I was surprised by something I hadn’t noticed as a teenager. The author, Leon Uris, describes a utopia of brave young pioneers in khaki shorts, farming when possible and fighting when necessary, quoting Bible verses as they hook up in ancient ruins, and so forth. But the novel isn’t just a fant...

John Wayne: the Wild Wests favorite movie star By Stars Insider of StarsInsider | John Wayne: the Wild Wests favorite movie star Mention John Wayne and some of Hollywoods most celebrated Westerns gallop into mind. Over a career that spanned half a century, the "Duke" appeared in more than 140 movies, many of them set in the Wild West and considered classics of the genre. Off camera, Wayne cut a sometimes controversial figure, and frequently espoused social and political views in public t...

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