Welcome to February 2025 
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NEW STUFF IN AND AROUND THE SWDB IN 
FEBRUARY 2025:
The year 2025 is also the year we’ve turned 20! Did we mention that? Yes we did.… if you have some idea on how we should celebrate this, let us know.
Emerging, ongoing and future improvement projects
At this stage I want to refer you to once more the December recap which had a huge rundown of all the things we’re doing and where you could help out with. For February, like for January, let’s keep things short and sweet. We keep improving things all around the SWDb and we’ll continue reporting in more depth on progress on certain projects later in the year.
… as always: join the SWDb, help out, it will make it better 
You don’t have to become a full time editor or official staff to contribute. Anything from being active in the forum to correcting mistakes to joining entire improvement projects is more than welcome. From all over the world, in all languages, we welcome help!
Those of you who feel inclined to donate a dollar or euro or yen or real or whatever, head here. PayPal has improved the donation experience, check it out - and you don’t even need a PayPal account to donate. Also, whenever you shop at Amazon, click on one of the SWDb’s Amazon links first, it doesn’t matter which one and what you buy. We can really use the cash to beef up the server infrastructure, and if we can get enough donations we should finally hire someone to fix some major issues with the underlying tech to make the SWDb better and safer again.
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Letterboxd
If you’re a Letterboxd user, we hope you follow the official SWDb Letterboxd HQ account. Click here to learn more about that. And your reminder: all the revised film pages in the SWDb have a direct link to their respective LB entry and the bottom.
Have you seen our East Meets West List? East meets West!, a list of films by The Spaghetti Western Database • Letterboxd
Home video news:
In February was not super exciting except for our friends in France who got a great new edition of Companeros.
March is mostly dominated by re-releases, with the exception of a UK release of Chato’s Land and the Italian HD debut of It can be done amigo.
The big news of course is/was the announcement of Arrow Video’s UK 4K UHD releases of the Dollars Trilogy. Extras and specifications are being revealed bit by bit. These look amazing so far, and you can already pre-order them (e.g. through the Amzn links in the SWDb), we are just a bit concerned by the apparent omission of Italian audio on For a Few Dollars more, but that remains to be confirmed.
Plase do egularly check the calendar, we often update it several times a day!
Visit the SWDb home video release calendar
Obituaries
Our head of obits, the spaghettiologist @Tom_B had to update the boot hill cemetery with an unfortunate 7 new obituaries over the course of the last four weeks, including the tragic and somewhat mysterious passing of screen legend Gene Hackman.
Check out “Cemetery with crosses”
Reviews:
Please contact us if you want your reviews published. We are especially looking for reviews of movies that have no, or very few, reviews in the SWDb. We publish them in all languages, and you don’t need to be a professional writer!
Sergio Leone by himself/Book review - The Spaghetti Western Database
New book!
Unboxing video:
Review:
See you next month! And also, see you on BlueSky.