≡ Category: Action, Italy, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action
Director: Marino Girolami
Year: 1975
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WORTH A LOOK
Roma Violenta is an okay time waster, but not much more than that.
Screenwriter Vincenzo Mannino and director Marino Girolami maintain a quick paced, steady flow of action, but there’s a problem. We’ve seen it all before, many times over. Dirty Harry clones like Roma Violenta live and […]
≡ Category: Drama, Italy, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Director: Damiano Damiani
Year: 1971
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
L’istruttoria E Chiusa Dimentchi aka The Case Is Closed: Forget About It has much in common with every other prison expose you’ve ever seen, with one exception: it’s about the Italian prison system. This makes a bigger difference than you might expect.
When people are driven mad […]
≡ Category: Art, Recommended, United Kingdom | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Art
Director: Ken Russell
Year: 1988
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Salome’s Last Dance is almost but not quite a filmed play.
On Guy Fawkes Day, 1892, playwright Oscar Wilde (Nickolas Grace) is invited to a high class brothel in order to watch a production of his play Salome, which has been banned in England. He watches […]
≡ Category: Giallo, Italy, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Giallo/ Suspense
Director: Emilio Miraglia
Year: 1972
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Is The Red Queen Kills 7 Times scary? No. Suspenseful? Nah. Horrifying? Nope. Funny? You bet.
The Red Queen Kills 7 Times starts out like a straight Gothic horror tale. After young girls Kitty and Evelyn Wildenbrück come to blows over a doll, Grandpa Wildenbrück tells […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Italy, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Year: 1986
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Il Camorrista aka The Professor, begins with a statement: “The authors of this film…hope that by viewing this film, the spectators might find further motives to believe in the necessity of the state and laws, as the only and true protection of civil life.”
That’s kind […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Essential, United Kingdom | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Exploitation
Director: Various
Year: 2005
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
There are plenty of literal minded people who will want to pick on HBO’s television series Rome for deviating from the historical record. Nobles have sex with horse traders in front of servants; events that took years are telescoped into days or weeks; words […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Spaghetti Western, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action
Director: Giulio Questi
Year: 1967
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Django Kill… If You Live, Shoot! is ultimately undone by poor direction and less than lucid screenwriting, but it definitely has it’s moments.
In a rather disgusting prologue, a group of bandits, half Mexican and half gringo, slaughter some prospectors and steal their gold. One of […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, France, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Robert Enrico
Year: 1967
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The Last Adventure is completely a movie of it’s time, and that’s both good and bad.
The good part is the characters. Manu (Alain Delon), Roland (Lino Ventura), and Laetitia (Joanna Shimkus) are adventurers, free spirits from three different generations, who follow their bliss, and are constitutionally […]
≡ Category: Essential, France, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Suspense
Director: Henri Verneuil
Year: 1969
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Here is a movie with hardly any action. Nobody so much as raises their voice. And yet it’s nail bitingly suspenseful.
All of the elements of The Sicilian Clan with the exception of the music score (more on that in a minute) work together, but the success […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, Italy, Recommended, Romance, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Art/ Romance
Director: Elio Petri
Year: 1967
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Dr. Antonio Roscio (Franco Tranchina) has been receiving anonymous death threats, which surprises no one because he’s an incorrigible skirt chaser in Sicily, where such things are not happily tolerated. Suspicion quickly falls on the brother and father of a fifteen year old […]
