Matt Blake – Page 54 – The Wild Eye

October 8, 2010

La notte di San Lorenzo (aka The Night of the Shooting Stars)

Just a brief review, as La notte di San Lorenzo (aka The Night of the Shooting Stars) has been more than adequately covered elsewhere. Released in 1982, this was the second big hit for the Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio…

October 6, 2010

Who the hell was… Robert Malcolm

Was watching The Three Fantastic Supermen in the Orient the other night, and it’s pretty rubbish. But… the main fantastic superman is played by one Robert Malcolm.

October 6, 2010

A Complicated Girl – Contemporary review from The Times

Damiano Damiani has a certain feeling for making glossy thrillers which still retain a vestige of intelligence….

October 6, 2010

The Mercenary – Contemporary review from The Times

Franco Nero, who seemed such a dull stick in Camelot, takes on a very different and more appealing complexion here as a Polish gunman…

September 30, 2010

R.I.P. Vincenzo Crocitti

News from Italy that Vincenzo Crocitti has died. Who he? Well, he was a prolific character actor who appeared in films from the late 1960s.

September 20, 2010

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Just out in Italy, Saverio Costanzo’s La solitudine dei numeri primi, aka The Solitude of Prime Numbers

September 16, 2010

007 all’italiana by Marco Giusti

ere’s some very interesting news! Marco Giusti, who wrote the excellent Dizionario del western all’italiana and is behind the Stracult TV series, has just released a book on Italian spy films!