3:10 to Yuma, Ride Lonesome, Smash His Camera, & The Devil and Daniel Johnston

3:10 to Yuma is the remake of the 1957 Glenn Ford-Van Heflin film, this time starring Christian Bale and Russell Crowe, with Peter Fonda and Alan Tudyk in supporting roles. It's quite good, holding up as both a remake and as a standalone film. If you like westerns, you'll like this.

Ride Lonesome is a Randolph Scott-Budd Boetticher western, referenced in "The Cursed Tuba Contingency" episode of The Middleman. Which is why I added it to my Netflix queue. It's a short little movie, about a bounty hunter trying to bring in a murderer, and ending up trying to keep the brother and his gang from setting him free. He gets involved with a couple of petty criminals and a widow. They also have to fight off Mescaleros. The ending scene in the film is very awesome, with some quick cuts and rampant symbolism.

Smash His Camera is a documentary about a famous paparazzi who basically hounded Jackie Kennedy. There are some interesting stories (Jack Nicholson punched him in the face), but overall, the guy is just annoying and only worth half-watching while doing something else until he talks about his more interesting stories.

The Devil and Daniel Johnston offended me on a very basic level: I like Daniel Johnston occasionally, and some of his music is good, but all of his friends and family comparing him to Bob Dylan and the Beatles and saying he's better than them? You're wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. He's an obviously mentally unstable man who was able to pull himself together a few times in his life to make good music, but mostly just needed to get serious help that his family and friends were unable and/or unwilling to provide.