Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1972
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Manhunt (or La Mala Ordina in the original Italian) is the 2nd part of writer/director Fernando Di Leo’s famed Milieu Trilogy.
Writer/director Di Leo wastes little time setting up the plot. Corso (Cyril Cusack), a mafia boss in NYC, hears that a Milanese pimp named Luca Canali […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Carlo Carlei
Year: 1993

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Director Carlo Carlei has a poet’s eye. Practically every image in his film could be the basis of a painting, even though the content is frequently horrific.
There is also a bit of the poet in Vito (Manuel Colao), the beautiful little boy at the […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1985
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
A couple of days ago, I wrote about The Boss, another infinitely better film from writer/director Fernando Di Leo. Both of these films are available as a package from Raro Video. If you really like Italian Poliziotteschi movies, the set is worth getting for The […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1973
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In most ways, The Boss AKA Il Boss is pretty delightful. The film is crammed full of flavorful performances, from the leads down to the tiniest character parts; the dialog is often laugh out loud funny; the way scenes are constructed is often cunning […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Nazisploitation
Director: Tinto Brass
Year: 1976

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The first thirty minutes of Salon Kitty is a relentless wallow in depravity, which gives the viewer fond hopes that Salon Kitty will be an ultimate Trash Cinema Essential of it’s kind. Sadly, the movie settles down into a more conventional pattern, and by the time […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western
Director: Sergio Leone
Year: 1965

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
With A Fistful Of Dollars, director Sergio Leone made Clint Eastwood a star. Also, this being Sergio Leone’s first big success, he hadn’t yet gone completely overboard with stylistic tics like stretching out scenes longer than could possibly make sense dramatically.
Also, for this first Man […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Andrea Bianchi
Year: 1974
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I saw Cry Of A Prostitute over 30 years ago in an outdoor movie theater in Ikaria, Greece, and it made quite an impression on me, mostly because of the gnarly imagery and lack of a conventional hero. I’ve been looking forward to watching it again […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western
Director: Sergio Leone
Year: 1965

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WORTH A LOOK
For A Few Dollars More is all about creating moments that transcend story and even character. These moments are really about nothing more than themselves.
Take for example, the scene where Monco (Clint Eastwood) repeatedly shoots Colonel Douglas Mortimer’s hat away just as he’s reaching for it; […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Massimo Dallamano
Year: 1976

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WORTH A LOOK
It’s difficult to say exactly what I didn’t like about Colt 38 Special Squad. It’s competently directed and paced by Massimo Dallamano, it’s got a reasonably good score by Stelvio Cipriani, it’s got a moment or two of kinky carnage, which I always appreciate, lots of innocent […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Western
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Year: 1966

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WORTH A LOOK
If you hope to enjoy the best in Trash Cinema, it is often necessary to suspend your disbelief, but there are limits. The ending of Django would require you to endure a frontal lobotomy to accept it.
Django starts out well enough with the evocative image of our […]