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I think the mania for Sergio Leone is stronger than it's ever been. It's undoubtedly due to the championing of Quentin Tarantino, and films like Sukiyaki Western Django and The Good, the Bad and the Weird, which are driving fans to seek out where they borrowed their serapes and squints from. There also seems to simply be a hunger for good adventure stories and rugged antiheroes, and there's no better place to get sated than Leone's films. If you feel like spending two hours in the broiling sun with a man who'll shoot you as soon as look at you, then you'll love today's free flick: For A Few Dollars More.

For A Few Dollars More might be my favorite of the Dollars Trilogy. I love them all on their own merits, but this installment stands on its own (I hate saying it, but Fistful is decidedly less cool after multiple viewings of Yojimbo), and is less operatic than The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. More also tips the balance thanks to the way it adds a little to the Man with No Name. Here, he's dubbed Monco (Spanish / Italian for maimed) due to the way he keeps his right hand hidden, and he doesn't just ride quietly out of the dust. Now he has a trail in a score of bloody newspaper clippings which suggests he could afford more than one serape. Ennio Morricone fans will also appreciate the little flourish he gave to Monco's gun hand

Even if you hate Westerns, you should watch it. Leone called his films "fairy tales for adults," and that's really what they are. They feel like every genre rolled in one, and have been borrowed from 1965 onward. Fans of everything from Tarantino to Pirates of the Caribbean will see something they recognize here.

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I really feel like I have to start a Minimates collection. I really dig these uber-cute things -- especially when they pick movies that seem unlikely. Currently, you can get everything from Marvel zombies to Marty McFly. Now /film reports that there's going to be Minimates for the Oscar-winning The Silence of the Lambs. How cool is that!?

The figures to be included in the box set: Clarice Starling sporting her smart business suit, Dr. Lector in blue, the crazy Hannibal Lector with bite-proof mask, straight jacket, and gurney, and of course, a topless Buffalo Bill with his creepy, Death's Head moth. Don't worry, the latter has pants on, so there's no package-tucking with these toys. From one of the released pictures (check out /film), it also looks like the accessories include Bill's night-vision goggles. I wonder what else is in the set!

And those aren't the only tiny toys coming out this year under MGM Movie Minimates. There's also The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, Fistful of Dollars, and Platoon. (Which of these things is not like the others?) This should satisfy Clint Eastwood fans, but now I can't help but wonder what will come next. I have my request...

To the Minimates powers that be: please put out Heathers!