Welcome to July 2025 
newsletter from the Spaghetti Western Database, your regular newsletter of what happened last month in the world of European westerns.
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NEW STUFF IN AND AROUND THE SWDB IN 
JULY 2025:
Emerging, ongoing and future improvement projects
No updates here this month, other than a statement that we are aware of performance issues of the website, and we are aware of the website being unresponsive or even unavailable for some. Please do contact us if you encounter issues. We are battling horrible bot traffic and attacks, but do not have the funds to defend ourselves as a company would. Aside from that, we still have to perform some major technical upgrades with the SWDb without external assistance and haven’t yet found the time to attempt these either…
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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.
Home video news:
July wasn’t so exciting, honestly. The main thing were keep case re-issues of the latest bunch of French releases (we have a review of the Cancaceiro disc, read below) and Eureka’s first foray into DEFA films.
August will be a bit more exciting, but not overwhelming. Obviously, the 4-disc Arrow Video release of GBU tops the list, the rest are re-issues in Japan and two releases (UK and Germany) of the cowboys-vs-dinosaurs film Gwangi’s Revenge.
Please note that our calendar already reaches all the way into December, with a few more to be announced very soon we think (UK, Germany, France, possibly others)! So stay tuned.
Also, regular edition re-releases for A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly are already listed for those who missed out or waited out the limited edition first runs.
Please check the calendar regularly, 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 6 new obituaries over the course of the last four weeks.
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!
Die Rache der Dinosaurier - Gwangis Rache BluRay Besprechung - The Spaghetti Western Database
A Fistful of Hard Media or For a Few Dollars Less - The Spaghetti Western Database
Cangaceiro film and BluRay review - The Spaghetti Western Database
Jeymes Samuel's Spaghetti Western Collection - The Spaghetti Western Database
Save the date
Press release: https://www.almeriawesternfilmfestival.es/es/el-paisaje-de-tabernas-y-los-poblados-conforman-el-cartel-de-awff-2025-que-rinde-homenaje-a-los-60-anos-de-la-muerte-tenia-un-precio/
See you also on BlueSky.
