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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Matteo Garrone
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I knew going in that Gomorra wasn’t going to be a laugh riot, but as a critic, I felt obliged to see this universally lauded film about the Camorra crime family. And guess what? It’s pretty much as good as the critics say.
Gomorra is filmed in […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Poliziotteschi/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Mario Bava
Year: 1974
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In it’s heart, Rabid Dogs is essentially a road movie. There isn’t a whole lot of action, and most of that is kind of blah by modern standards. Mario Bava’s direction is never more than workmanlike. Yet Rabid Dogs still manages to entertain.
After […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Horror/ Suspense
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Year: 1981
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s hard to know what to make of Cannibal Ferox. At first glance, it resembles one of those Roger Corman produced cheapies lensed in the Phillipines. Shoddy scriptwriting, amateurish acting, cheesy music score — you know the drill. At first, the only difference is that […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Spaghetti Western
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Year: 1968
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Great Silence has a great theme - how the love of money corrupts and destroys everything it touches, and is inextricably linked to violence and force.
Director Sergio Corbucci has come up with a brilliant visual gambit for this material. The Great […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Poliziotteschi
Director: Duccio Tessari
Year: 1973
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Before I get started on actually discussing the merits of Tony Arzenta, I should mention that I saw a dubbed copy, which generally leads to subtracting a least a star from my rating, especially for Italian flicks. That’s because the way Italians express themselves is […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1972
Rating:
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 […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Carlo Carlei
Year: 1993
Rating:
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 […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1985
Rating:
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 […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1973
Rating:
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 […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Nazisploitation
Director: Tinto Brass
Year: 1976
Rating:
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 […]