Saddle up, cow folk!  It's time to follow the tumbleweed to a time of outlaws and bounty hunters as we once again join up with The Man With No Name... El Indio has been broken out of jail.  Two bounty hunters race against time and each other to hunt him. Who'll catch him the outlaw first?  The nameless drifter, or the former Officer who has a personal stake in the confrontation with El Indio? Who'll earn a few dollars more...? This sequel to " A Fistful of Dollars " keeps up the tradition started with the first one.  Stark landscapes, morally ambiguous characters, and setting a new standard by which Westerns would be measured against in North America. The story isn't really all that complex- but is certainly sufficient to carry the weight and power of the characters.  In fact, this movie is absolutely more about the characters than the plot.  You're bound to lose track of the story details as you become fascinated by the three main characters.  ...

  It was high noon, and the tumbleweed were tumbling by when I first saw him... The Man With No Name... his steely glare burning into me brighter than the white hot sun reflecting off the scorched, arid dirt... Nah... not really.  I was a teenager in an air conditioned basement... A drifter follows the tumbleweed into a small one road town.  At one end was the Baxter family, and at the other end, the Rojo family.  Both families were fighting for control, with the average citizen suffering in between. Seeing an opportunity to make money, the drifter proceeds to play a deadly game of tug of war with the two families... " A Fistful of Dollars ", directed by Sergio Leone, is a masterpiece of the Spaghetti Western genre.  Compared to most of the North American Westerns filmed at the time, it stripped away the idealistic sheen off of the genre.  It was gritting, sweaty, dirty, with very complex and morally ambiguous characters.  It dropped the "white hat/bla...

The Outlaw Josey Wales was one of my dad's favourite movies. So I saw it a lot growing up. Every time it was on TV, he and I ended up watching it. By default, and gladly so, it's become one of my favourite movies as well. Josey Wales takes Clint Eastwood's The Man with No Name and deposits him in a post-Civil War epic about revenge and redemption. In many ways, it covers similar themes as Eastwood's Unforgiven. This movie is more thoughtful and intelligent than I remember it being. Then again, as a kid, I was mostly interested in the gunfights. There are gunfights aplenty in The Outlaw Josey Wales, but there's a greater depth to the film, and the character, as well. This movie is as much about a group of individuals coming together to merge their destinies as they survive in the Old West. The ironic thing is Josey Wales, a violent loner, becomes their leader and father figure. It's an interesting dynamic, and plays very well, even some 44 years after the m...

Few will argue Charles Bronson's Spaghetti Western Once Upon a Time in the West is a classic. Not just of the genre, but all of cinema. Robert Bronzi's upcoming Once Upon a Time in Deadwood? Well.... Not that I think it looks bad. It actually looks pretty good. Bronzi proved he's the living embodiment of Charles Bronson with the solid Death Kiss, and I'm sure he's gonna put foot to ass here. Plus there's the great Michael Pare, a couple of hot blondes, and lots and lots of shooting. But Once Upon a Time in Deadwood? Hey, if the title puts asses in seats, who am I to judge. Not a question, a statement. And producer Jeff Miller says much of the film was shot where Bronson made Once Upon a Time in the West, which is cool. Here's the trailer: Once Upon a Time in Deadwood also stars Karin Brauns and Lauren Compton. It hits Digital Oct 1, and DVD Nov. 19. And darn tootin' we're gonna check it out! Source: Uncork'd Entertainment 

At one time or another, we have all been there- unable to sleep, flipping idly through the channels and creating our own story from the bits and fragments we catch between channel flips, until we come across a show or movie that makes us go, "Huh... this might be interesting." Or in my case, flipping through my DVD/Blu-Ray collection.