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Treat yourself to some male friendship.
Danny McBride’s underrated HBO comedy The Righteous Gemstones is coming to an end after four seasons, but Uncle Baby Billy — and the glorious insanity with which Walton Goggins plays him — can live forever in your wardrobe. And what a movie: It’s a 47-minute tour across a lovingly animated Spanish countryside following an intrepid hero, Pepe, who pedals and reflects on his family, his ex, and his sponsors (who want to fire him, the jerks) as the Vuelta a España carries him through his hometown. While there’s an undeniable sadness over the series — a third film, not included here, resulted in the death of Roy Kinnear and the end of Lester’s directing career — these two are swashbuckling classics, and must-haves for all fans of filmic swordplay and flamboyant chapeaus.
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