Punks, guns and coffee: why Straight to Hell gives me a thirst for the past

Alex Cox's 1987 spaghetti western homage was loathed on release, but its reissue is a reminder of a bygone countercultureNostalgia is a feeling I try to avoid. Even so, I couldn't help a pang while re-acquainting myself with Straight to Hell – director Alex Cox's berserk homage to Sergio Leone made back in distant 1987, a tribute to the spaghetti western so grubby it had blood and pasta sauce down its shirt, which is now the recipient of a polished-up DVD reissue complete with once-deleted sce...

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