≡ Category: Action, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Poliziotteschi
Director: Romolo Guerrieri
Year: 1976
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Young, Violent, Dangerous puts me in a bit of a quandary. It’s tightly and logically written by Fernando Di Leo, well acted, and professionally directed by Romolo Guerrieri. And yet, I have a hard time buying the central concept.
Lea (Eleonora Giorgi) shows up at […]
≡ Category: Action, Highly Recommended, Italy, Macaroni Combat | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Macaroni Combat
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Year: 1978
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
The Inglorious Bastards may start out slow, but once the characters are introduced, it’s nonstop action from there on in.
The bastards of the title are a bunch of soldiers who have been sentenced to the brig or the firing squad for various offenses. […]
≡ Category: Action, Exploitation, Horror, Italy, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Horror/ Action/ Exploitation
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Year: 1981
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I really wanted to like Cut and Run. It has the Trash Cinema spirit, that’s for sure. Director Ruggero Deodato seldom misses an opportunity to slather on gratuitous layers of sleaze, full frontal nudity and graphic violence for the raincoat brigade.
We get to see such […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Michele Placido
Year: 2010
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Angel of Evil is a real curiosity.
The acting is fine (although it must be said that lead actor Kim Rossi Stuart doesn’t have a whole lot of charisma) and director Michele Placido directs with style, but cleanly, foregoing the ever-so-fashionable stylistic vomit of latter […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Terence Young
Year: 1972
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s not really fair to compare The Valachi Papers with The Godfather. Very few pictures are as good, let alone gangster flicks. Yet you can’t help yourself.
The Godfather was fiction, but it played like the gospel truth. The Valachi Papers is based on the life […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Year: 1976
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The first thing you notice with Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man is that the leads, Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock, are impossibly beautiful men, like Greek gods. Not that they are effeminate in any way. Unlike American leading men, Porel and Lovelock […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Poliziotteschi, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Year: 1975
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Henry Silva has one of the least reassuring smiles in cinema, like a grinning shark, even when he’s supposed to be a happy family man, as in Manhunt In The City.
When the eight year old daughter of David Vannucchi (Henry Silva) is killed […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Not Worth Your Time, Spaghetti Western | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Year: 1968
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I don’t know about you, but the title of Kill Them All And Come Back Alone conjures up the ultimate nihilistic spaghetti western. It pretty much writes itself. My fantasy of such a movie goes something like this: a group of hyper-competent cutthroats […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Poliziotteschi/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1975
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Back when Kidnap Syndicate was made, there was an epidemic of kidnappings of all kinds in Italy: kidnapping for ransom, as well as political kidnappings of all different political persuasions. Although Kidnap Syndicate is structured as a suspense thriller, the clear impetus […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Satire
Director: Giovanni Fago
Year: 1970
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
O’Cangaceiro isn’t quite a spaghetti western — for one thing, it takes place in Brazil — but it has a lot in common with the politically satiric westerns coming out of Italy in the late 60s and early 70s.
When a colonel in Brazil massacres the […]
