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About Piddleville

I can’t claim to be a film critic, historian or even much of a reviewer. I just like movies. What I do on Piddleville with my “reviews” is try to determine why I like or dislike the various movies that I see...

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The Tall Tale of the Mexican

Bill Wren • October 21, 2015adventure, Comedy
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Call it a tall tale, a shaggy dog story or any of the other variations, this is a movie that uses exaggeration and fable to tell a story that centres around another romantic tall tale. And it works much better now, ten or more years later, with distance from the…

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Is Hondo the Definitive John Wayne Movie?

Bill Wren • October 18, 2015Western, Westerns
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Poster for Hondo (1953)

I don’t thing many people would argue that Hondo is the best of John Wayne’s movies. Similarly, I don’t many will argue against it being among his best both as a western and as a performance from Wayne. But if ever there was a movie that illustrated what John Wayne…

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Anniversary Post

Bill Wren • May 17, 2015Blather, Websites
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Piddleville from back in the day.

15 years ago on this day, I registered Piddleville.com and I think it was far less bland then. I called it “the congenial website” because I liked the sound of that.

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Monkeyshines from the Sixties

Bill Wren • September 8, 2014adventure, Reviews
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I saw Planet of the Apes (1968) last night on TCM. I still like it as a pretty good late 1960’s Hollywood take on science fiction (which is always more like science fantasy). So I decided to post this review once again. (I wrote this back in 2003.)

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