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The handheld camera, fast pace, rapid editing makes it all breezy fun, redolent of Spaghetti Westerns, which were also at their peak in 1968 It's also one of the few wuxia films made in the Hokkien dialect Wuxia pioneer King Hu's presence is here – director Chen Hung Min started out editing King Hu's classic[...]

Hilarity ensues. "That Dirty Black Bag" poster: AMC+ That Dirty Black Bag dropped its pilot episode with virtually no fanfare on AMC+ this week, a pastiche or update of the Spaghetti Western as a new TV series that seems to just spin its wheels The show fails to ask that big question: Why should we care? It[...]

Redemption takes a different turn into Science Fiction, Spaghetti Western, Mad Max-style post-apocalypse dystopias, and outright LGBTQ feminist polemic The bad guys are redeemably venal and fascistic men who oppress women The good guys are women The Gunslinger with No Name is drawn to look cheekily like Linda Hamilton as you might imagine her action[...]

Just as her crime series Bad Mother concludes, her feminist Science Fiction Spaghetti Western begins Redemption #1 sets the stage for a post-apocalyptic Western where the deadly laconic Clint Eastwood-style gunslinger figure is a tough, mean old lady. "Redemption #1" cover art, courtesy of AWA Studios Set in an unspecified post-apocalyptic future of desert wasteland towns where[...]

The first episode is fun, a bounty hunter series that's effectively a Spaghetti Western in Star Wars clothing. The main character is a Man With No Name He hunts fugitives dead or alive He travels in the outback of the galaxy where everyone and everything has a price Heroism is in short supply, only survival[...]