A bandit leader and a fugative IRA man join together to rob a bank in an explosive spagehtti western set in Mexico in 1913. Having already, in Once Upon a Time in the West, taken energetic liberties with the typical Fordian Western, it's not surprising that Leone should have taken a sideswipe at another of the director's stereotypes, the revolutionary Irishman, in the second part of his trilogy of political fables. But the specific IRA background of Coburn's Sean is as ultimately unimportant as
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APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX (1979)
Certification18 Our Rating
The definitive 'Apocalypse Now' (as if the original wasn't pretty definitive) this has nearly an hour of extra footage fleshing out the surreal journey of our central protagonists and, though it brings the film to a whisker short of three and a half hours, much of it explains what happens to the eclectic characters we meet. The cut version of 'Apocalypse Now' stands as one of the most awesome films of modern cinema, anyone who has seen it will inevitably see it again, it's just that now you have
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TROPIC THUNDER (2008)
Certification15 Our Rating
A wildly diverse mixture of deluded stars are joined together for the ultimate (read horribly over budget) Vietnam war movie ever. From Kirk Lazarus, an obsessive five time Oscar winner who gets himself surgically darkened to play the African American character to Tugg Speedman, a wilting action superstar tormented by his lack of ability, all are ill-equipped to deal with the everyday world, let alone the drug lord infested jungle the director unwittingly drops them in when he decides on some ba
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