Early in “Blackthorn,” I had to smile when the line “I can’t trust someone with no name” was uttered. Immediately, it brought to mind Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name character from Sergio Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy — some of the best Westerns ever made. And “Blackthorn” is nothing if not a cinematic celebration of the […]
Sergio Leone
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The Last Gun / 4 Dollars of Revenge
Spaghetti Western fans are bound to be disappointed by this double feature, no matter how appealing the packaging for the Mill Creek Entertainment Blu-ray is, which is a lot. The two films just don’t have the balls of Sergio Leone and the like. In fact, for being of the same era as The Man with […]
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El Topo
I say this to note that just because a film is a cult classic doesn’t make it good, and his debut — a “hit” only by midnight-movie standards of the early ’70s when filmgoers had their mind expanded by more than what was happening onscreen — is more weird than wonderful, although visually interesting. From […]