A Million Ways to Die in the West

I don’t know Seth MacFarlane. I’ve never seen Family Guy, or Ted, or his apparently squirmy presentation at the Oscars. I’ve never seen him interviewed or read an opinion piece on him. So I came to A Million Ways to Die in the West with no expectations whatsoever. Which was a good thing, I think….

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Odd Thomas

Odd ThomasĀ felt like an extremely well-made pilot for a tv show. I don’t know if that’s the case or not, but that’s what it felt like. Anton Yelchin plays the title character, a short-order cook-cum-investigator who’s got a seriously odd a flair for the paranormal. He can tell bad things are going to happen when…

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Cowboys and Aliens

In Cowboys and Aliens, it’s 1873 and a skinny, craggy Daniel Craig awakes in the Arizona desert with no recollection of who he is nor how he got there, and with a strange, beeping, modern metal bangle strapped to his wrist. When he arrives at the nearest town, it’s attacked by aliens with vastly superior…

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