Saddle up and head west.

Fill up that gas tank and climb aboard your hog with your hosts, Billy and Wyatt. This week we launch our new media review blog: The Hypocritics, presented by Man Under Glass Productions. This is a project we've launched after countless years of enjoying movies, music, animation, photography and countless other forms of art and is a way to expand on our personal endeavors in these topics. Each week we'll be adding movies reviews for films we're currently watching. We'll be kicking off this blog with the entire month of August devoted to the most American of movie genres: the Western. For me personally, I feel I've neglected this genre almost entirely in my movie viewing. I can't think of too many classic Westerns that I've ever seen so I felt this was a good way to get immersed and find out what this genre is all about. We'll be starting off this week with "Unforgiven" and I'm excited to get started on this project. Along the way we'll each be throwing in other random reviews for movies we're watching, both old and new, as well as music and art that we come across. Both Phil and I enjoy listening to a large variety of music especially in vinyl format.


I personally don't have much formal education in the arts but feel it's been a large part of my life as I've grown up. I've loved watching movies since I can remember existence. Growing up in a large family with not much money in a small, Midwest farming town, our weekly family entertainment budget consisted of stopping at the local grocery store on the way home from church on Saturday nights to pick up a couple VHS rentals to watch as a family while eating pizza. As I became older, my interest in movies continued to grow. My older siblings moved out and there was no longer a "kid" in the family that we had to make sure we rented a PG rated title for. I obtained a license and was finally able to drive the 20 miles to the nearest video rental store which at the time would rent non-new releases: 5 movies for $5 for 5 days. Finally, a chance to catch up on some classics I had never seen! This trend continued through college and was augmented with the addition of cable TV and more disposable income. Today, I have ceased paying for cable but watch Netflix almost constantly.

I hope you enjoy this project and your feedback is always welcomed and appreciated. You can send us an e-mail at: feedbackthehypocritics@gmail.com . Thanks for reading.

Joe Rood