Director Sergio Corbucci (Django) takes the standard Italian horse opera and inverts and skews everything you come to expect from the genre, punctures the conventions that had afflicted these films like a bunch of predictable yet still irritating saddle sores, and delivers a stunning ending that doesn’t let the film’s ambitions down one bit. Read More

If this movie stayed on task and was solely about the wondrous odyssey of a giant sheep and his befuddled and alcoholic owner, you would have had a classic on your hands. However, the bulk of the movie deals with (for no apparent reason) the a crooked mayor named Silverdale. Mayor Silverdale babbles endlessly about recreating and keeping the past alive in his town and uses this as a reason to refuse to sell mining leases to Barnstable who represents a powerful mining company. As fascinating as all this non-wheeling and dealing is, I paid my money to find out exactly what the hell a Godmonster was! Read More

Buck, the Canadian wonderdog who was last seen in Buck At The Edge Of Heaven returns for a final, fantastical frontier odyssey of whip-wielding broads and black guys pretending to be Indians! Read More

Django is widely regarded as the other movie that kickstarted the entire spaghetti western genre. Coming out about two years after Clint Eastwood’s and Sergio Leone’s A Fistful Of Dollars, Django somehow was the one that actually caught on in a huge way in the foreign market (though it remained virtually unseen in America for years) and caused not only every Italian guy with access to a camera to make a new-style western, but also caused them to put Django’s name in every one of their titles whether it was actually about a guy named Django or not. Read More

Robert Altman and Paul Newman team up to give us some revisionist history about America’s greatest hero, Buffalo Bill. Mind you, I have no idea what Buffalo Bill ever did that was so dang great. I’m guessing that he killed hisself some buffalo and Indians or something back in times when that sort of thing could pass for an occupation. Read More

I don’t know who thought it would be a good idea to feature a picture of Gregory Peck lazily leaning over a fence on the front of the DVD. This is, after all, an almost three hour long western that also stars Charlton Heston as the ranch foreman who is quite the arse hole. I don’t know about you, but Gregory Peck isn’t my president. Read More