Movie Night with Josh Barry
Talking about movies, sometimes with friends, sometimes with family and sometimes just me. We will discuss our thoughts and feelings, a bit of history and any backstory about the movie, the directors, the writers and the actors.
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The Gentleman and the Ghost - Ch. 2 (opens the original)
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A gentleman dentist. A dying man. A legend forged in gun smoke. John Henry Holliday was trained to heal. Raised among the fading gentility of postwar Georgia, he builds a life of precision, science, and respectability—until tuberculosis shatters every certainty he has. With death lodged in his lungs, Holliday leaves behind his dental practice and heads west, where dry air, poker tables, and a Colt revolver offer the only future he has left. Reborn as “Doc,” he becomes a feared gambler whose calm
The Gentleman and the Ghost - Ch. 1 (opens the original)
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A gentleman dentist. A dying man. A legend forged in gun smoke. John Henry Holliday was trained to heal. Raised among the fading gentility of postwar Georgia, he builds a life of precision, science, and respectability—until tuberculosis shatters every certainty he has. With death lodged in his lungs, Holliday leaves behind his dental practice and heads west, where dry air, poker tables, and a Colt revolver offer the only future he has left. Reborn as “Doc,” he becomes a feared gambler whose calm
Movie Night Essay Ep 84 Tombstone (opens the original)
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@movienight-with-Josh-BarryTombstone: The Western That Became a LegendFew American movies have aged into myth as gracefully as Tombstone. Released in 1993, it arrived at a moment when the Western seemed, to many studio executives, more like a burden than a bankable genre. The classic cowboy picture had not vanished, but it had become a difficult sell in a marketplace driven by action franchises, urban thrillers, and glossy star vehicles. And yet Tombstone did what the best Westerns have always d
Movie Night Ep 83 Tombstone (opens the original)
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@movienight-with-Josh-BarryTombstone: The Western That Became a LegendFew American movies have aged into myth as gracefully as Tombstone. Released in 1993, it arrived at a moment when the Western seemed, to many studio executives, more like a burden than a bankable genre. The classic cowboy picture had not vanished, but it had become a difficult sell in a marketplace driven by action franchises, urban thrillers, and glossy star vehicles. And yet Tombstone did what the best Westerns have always d
Movie Night Essay Ep 82 My Darling Clementine (opens the original)
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@movienight-with-Josh-BarryMy Darling Clementine: John Ford’s Elegy for the FrontierMy Darling Clementine is one of the great American Westerns not because it is the most realistic, the most violent, or the most expansive, but because it is among the most graceful. Released in 1946 and directed by John Ford, the film transforms the raw historical material of the O.K. Corral era into a stately meditation on law, memory, civility, and loss. It is a Western that moves with the confidence of a balla
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