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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · 16h

Great album. Great movie.

Hellbent for Letterbox @hellbentforletterbox.com · 1d

After an unexpected end-of-summer hiatus, @paxholley.com and @michaelmay.bsky.social are back to finish up their Willie Nelson double header with Red Headed Stranger, also starring Morgan Fairchild, Katharine Ross, RG Armstrong, and Royal Dano.

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Hellbent for Letterbox @hellbentforletterbox.com · 1d

After an unexpected end-of-summer hiatus, @paxholley.com and @michaelmay.bsky.social are back to finish up their Willie Nelson double header with Red Headed Stranger, also starring Morgan Fairchild, Katharine Ross, RG Armstrong, and Royal Dano.

www.hellbentforletterbox.com/2025/09/red-...

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Bizarro Jimmy Olsen @bizarrojimmyolsen.bsky.social · 5d

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5d

“In 2023, Criterion released new 4K versions of the five Ranown westerns. It was a welcome upgrade for films that critic Dave Kehr, writing in 1982, described as being ‘among the major glories of American movies.’”

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Randolph Scott, Virtuous Loner of the West

Lonesomeness, nobility, and anti-machismo: the ‘Ranown’ westerns are an underappreciated treasure of American cinema.

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mathias @skeppstedt.bsky.social · 14d

Another great episode! And I agree with everything you guys said.
Really looking forward to the next one!

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Hellbent for Letterbox @hellbentforletterbox.com · 14d

Back in the saddle!

Pax Wolf @paxholley.com · 15d

Got quite a bounty for you today! @hellbentforletterbox.com also returns with a brand new episode! @michaelmay.bsky.social and I continue our look at Willie Nelson flicks with Red Headed Stranger from 1986! Also starring Morgan Fairchild, Katharine Ross, and Royal Dano!

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 19d

A new classic Western TV channel from MeTV parent Weigel Broadcasting launches Sept 29.

WEST will be available free, over-the-air in 55.7% of the US at launch.

No word on when/if it will be on Frndly TV or other live TV streamers that carry MeTV channels.

thedesk.net/2025/09/weig... #ClassicTV

Weigel sets September 29 launch date for West multicast network

Weigel Broadcasting has formally set a launch date for its western-themed multicast network West

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Hellbent for Letterbox @hellbentforletterbox.com · 23d

Ya'll have been very patient with Pax and Michael have had a busy summer with other things, but new episode coming soon!

Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · 26d

Tonight’s Movie

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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · 26d

#ForAThing

Red Headed Stranger album by Willie Nelson

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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · 27d

#ForAThing

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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · 28d

Whoopee!

Wonder Woman carries a stagecoach with the horses still attached to it.

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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · Sep 5

Happy Raquel Welch Day!

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Chad @spidey9000.bsky.social · Aug 25

Just finished the latest After Midnight. I know you're locked into a lot of the comics, but you guys need to check out Locke & Key, Harrow County and The Sixth Gun. Actually you and @paxholley.com should do The Sixth Gun on Hellbent too if you ever do comics.

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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · Aug 22

We watched it for @hellbentforletterbox.com: @paxholley.com and @bizarrojimmyolsen.bsky.social and I. We all really dug it.

www.hellbentforletterbox.com/2020/11/the-...

The Sisters Brothers (2018)

Evan Hanson returns to help Michael and Pax analyze The Sisters Brothers starring John C Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Ri...

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Reindeerius Whitechristmasplume @dariusw.bsky.social · Jul 24

Do you know this one?

The Ballad of Dood & Juanita by Sturgill Simpson on Apple Music

Album · 2021 · 10 Songs

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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · Jul 24

This is gonna come up on @hellbentforletterbox.com soon.

Willie Nelson’s Magnum Opus Fifty Years Later

Red Headed Stranger is considered one of the greatest and most important country albums ever recorded. Fifty years after it changed the game with its artistry and concepts, we revisit both the album a...

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Hellbent for Letterbox @hellbentforletterbox.com · Jul 21

Nostalgia is a helluva thing. 😁

--Mike

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mathias @skeppstedt.bsky.social · Jul 20

Great episode, great talk!
I am definitely more on Pax's side this time. Big Willie Nelson fan, but would still only give the movie a 2.5. Not sure what it was, but I think Pax was on the right track. Great Gary Busey. And for the record Red Headed Stranger is my favorite Willie album.

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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · Jul 4

Do you got enough ass in your britches to press play on Barbarosa?

Hellbent for Letterbox @hellbentforletterbox.com · Jul 4

New Episode! @michaelmay.bsky.social and @paxholley.com watch one of Michael's favorite '80s Westerns, Barbarosa starring Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, and Gilbert Roland.

www.hellbentforletterbox.com/2025/07/barb...

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Hellbent for Letterbox @hellbentforletterbox.com · Jul 4

New Episode! @michaelmay.bsky.social and @paxholley.com watch one of Michael's favorite '80s Westerns, Barbarosa starring Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, and Gilbert Roland.

www.hellbentforletterbox.com/2025/07/barb...

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Reindeerius Whitechristmasplume @dariusw.bsky.social · Jun 26

Listening to the @hellbentforletterbox.com episode on Nicholas Ray's "Johnny Guitar".

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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · Jun 25

Picking this for our next @hellbentforletterbox.com movie.

A ★★★ review of Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942)

A classic because it's short. That dumb buzzard would be annoying in anything longer, but he's pretty funny in a dose this small.

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Pax Wolf @paxholley.com · Jun 20

Happy Friday! Brand new episode of @hellbentforletterbox.com just dropped where @michaelmay.bsky.social and I talk about another Peckinpah. Is it a classic? Or is it classic "Mike and Pax don't like it?" Listen and find out!

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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · Jun 19

This one tried my patience for Hopalong Cassidy movies, but I'm going to keep watching. A couple of my favorite actors join the series shortly after this.

A ★★½ review of Riders of the Timberline (1941)

Mediocre Hopalong Cassidy flick with him and Johnny (Brad King) checking in on a logging operation run by one of Hoppy's friends. The third member of Hoppy and Johnny's traditional trio, California, a...

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Michael Maycabre 🎃 @michaelmay.bsky.social · Jun 18

Jane loves Bob, but Bob loves Anne, but Anne loves somebody else. Love stinks!

A ★★★½ review of Badlands of Dakota (1941)

Pretty good romantic triangle about a woman (Ann Rutherford!) who's been engaged to a man (Broderick Crawford) for years, but falls in love with his brother (Robert Stack) on the way to the wedding. M...

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Pax Wolf @paxholley.com · May 29

I don’t think I mentioned this here.

SO MANY thanks to @shawnrobare.com and @shezcrafti.com for subjecting their kids to a whole day of waiting in line at a monster convention, because I now have 3 of the Young Guns signatures on my poster.

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