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For a Few Dollars More (1965)

8.1 (22 Ratings) Rate It

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In the Wild West, a murderous outlaw known as El Indio (Gian Maria Volonte) and his gang are...

Days of Death

P. McCormac

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Elwood Black wants complete control over the gold mining community of Thomaston. He surrounds...

Susie Bright recommended Je Tu Il Elle (1974) in Movies (curated)

Je Tu Il Elle (1974)

1974 | Drama

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"I remember going to my first “gay” film festival in the ’70s, with its tiny newsprint program, folding chairs for the audience, a complete underground experience. I asked my companion, “When do we see a lesbian movie?” Chantal Akerman’s avant-garde jewel was my first. My God, talk about ahead of her time. A proto-punk dyke protagonist, a butch, a whore, an outlaw, the unrepentant seize-fiend of all she sees . . . We still fight for glimpses of such antiheroines in the movies. Julie/Chantal is, regretfully, still a woman on the edge of antipatriarchal time."

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David McK (3495 KP) rated The Last Berserker in Books

May 8, 2021

First entry in Angus Donald's new 'Fire Born' Viking series, in which the main character is what we would term as a Berserker (although never named as such).

This is set in an even earlier time period than his 'Holcroft Blood' series (set during the time of Charles II) or even his even-earlier set 'Outlaw' series (about Robin Hood), but - unfortunately - I found it to be inferior to both.

That's not to say that it's bad; just that it didn't resonate (with the twists not really hitting home) as much with me as this earlier series did.

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Red Dead Redemption

8.4 (23 Ratings) Rate It

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America, early 1900's. The era of the cowboy is coming to an end. When federal agents threaten...

Midnight Falcon (The Rigante, #2)

David Gemmell

9.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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They called him Bane the Bastard - though none said it to his face. Born of treachery, his name a...

David McK (3495 KP) rated Shanghai Noon (2000) in Movies

Jul 23, 2023

Shanghai Noon (2000)

2000 | Action, Comedy, Western

7.8

(6 Ratings)

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Easy-going martial arts Jackie Chan/Owen Wilson (and Lucy Liu) film, with Chan portraying the party of a Chinese Forbidden City Imperial Guard soldier who travels to the Wild West of America to rescue the kidnapped Princess Pei Pei (Lucy Liu), and falls in with outlaw Roy O'Bannon (Wilson) along the way.

As a Jackie Chan film, you pretty much know what to expect: lots of martial arts slapstick in his own inimitable style (and pidgin English, which is still a lot better than my non-existent Chinese!) and a few 'that's a terrible name for a cowboy' puns along the way!