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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Suspense/ Drama/ Comedy
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Year: 1970
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For the most part, Compañeros is a solidly directed, well written piece, with a sturdy structure and a killer ending, but what really makes it work are the wonderful characters created by writer/director Sergio Corbucci and fleshed out by the […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Gianfranco Parolini
Year: 1971
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
At first The Return Of Sabata looks like it’s going to be a screed against taxation.
When Sabata (Lee Van Cleef) arrives in town, he finds that McIntock (Giampiero Albertini) is taxing everything in town, supposedly to finance future improvements to the town’s infrastructure.
By […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Stelvio Massi
Year: 1977
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
La Banda del Trucido aka Destruction Force starts out like a typical Italian Dirty Harry knockoff. In a pre-credit sequence, Commissario Ghini (Luc Merenda) deals with a trio of hostage takers in the typically hamfisted way we’re accustomed to while his boss does his […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Lucio Fulci
Year: 1966
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
At the center of Massacre Time is an old chestnut of a Western story.
Tom Corbett (Franco Nero) has been away for awhile (in this case panning for gold in California), when a family friend tells him to come home. When he gets there, […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Sergio Sollima
Year: 1968
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I have a confession to make. After watching five lackluster movies in a row, I was dreading a sixth. I knew I had to find as close to a sure thing as I could to rinse the bad taste out of my […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Michael Radford
Year: 1994
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Fleeing his native Chile to avoid arrest, poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) winds up on a remote Italian island. In the area in which he is staying, Neruda is the only person who isn’t illiterate. The local post office hires Mario Ruoppolo (Massimo […]
