The first and best of the Italian "Mexi-Westerns", on a par with Leone's and with a haunting soundtrack. An American mercenary teams up with a bandit on the fringes of the revolutionaries in order to assinate their leader. A violent political film from the same pen as The Battle Of Algiers. find out more...

The original El Mariarchi is lured out of retirement, by the murder of the woman he loves and the encouragement of a borderline sociopath, in a bullet riddled pyrotechnic extravaganza that marks the final chapter of Rodriguez's contemporary Mexican/Western trilogy. Rest assured El Mariachi is up against some very bad men and an implausibly large number of sidekicks in what turns out to be an hour and a half of heavily stylised shoot outs. 'Once Upon A Time In Mexico' has lost much of the tightne find out more...

Peckinpah completely rewrites John Ford's Western mythology by looking at the passing of the Old West from the point of view of marginalised outlaws rather than law-abiding settlers. While never ignoring their brutality he contrasts their code of loyalty with that of the corrupt railroad magnates. In purely cinematic terms, the film is a savagely beautiful spectacle, Lucien Ballard's superb cinematography complementing Peckinpah's darkly elegiac vision. find out more...