2009 – Page 2 – The Wild Eye

November 30, 2009

R.I.P. Tony Kendall

Ah, no… this is bad news. Actor Luciano Stella, aka Tony Kendall, died over the weekend. He’s best known to Eurospy fans, of course, as Joe Walker, the hero of the Kommissar X series of films, and he also appeared in numerous other genre films from the 1960s onwards.

November 25, 2009

La prima linea

Here’s an interesting sounding new film that’s just been released in Italy, Renato De Maria’s La prima linea, aka The Front Line. It’s another…

November 23, 2009

Italian films flopping at box office

There’s an interesting article in Screen Daily about the lack of success being enjoyed by Italian films in the domestic box office at the…

November 17, 2009

The Brøken

Not to be confused with the 2006 film Broken, directed by Simon Boyes and Adam Mason, The Brøken is a rather more ambitious production directed by Sean Ellis and released in 2008. With a budget of around £4million, it can count itself as unfortunate not to have been granted a wider release; it played in several festivals around the world and had a limited release in the UK and internationally, but most of its business will inevitably be done on DVD.

November 13, 2009

The Wild Eye

Year: 2009

R.I.P. Tony Kendall

La prima linea

Italian films flopping at box office

The Brøken

Moralista, Il

Complici del silenzio

R.I.P. Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez