November 19, 2015 Night of the Sinner Back in the early 1970s, Alessando Perrella was one of those actors who popped up in just about every other cheapjack spaghetti western that was made
October 25, 2015 Byleth A chubby bird and a moustachioed bloke have a quick shag (and wasn’t it ever thus in the world of Italian sex scenes). After he dresses and leaves her, she is attacked and killed by an unseen assailant.
October 16, 2015 The Arrival of Wang The Arrival of Wang, a 2011 sci fi film directed by Antonio and Marco Manetti, has a great if far-fetched central premise
July 28, 2015 My Lai Four My Lai Four, an Italian war film from 2010 from the same team who bought you the, erm, classic Island of the Living Dead and Zombies: the Beginning. It’s not very good.
July 16, 2015 Elio Petri: I giorni contati Petri’s second film was I giorni contati (62), which again featured Salvo Randone. This time he plays Cesare, a plumber and widower who is riding home from work on the bus when it’s discovered that one of the passengers has died.
May 25, 2015 Elio Petri: The Assassin After making two shorts, Nasce un campione (54) and I sette contadini (59), Petri made his full debut with The Assassin (L’assassino, 61), based on a script co-written with Tonino Guerra (with whom he would later collaborate on several films).
May 11, 2015 Christopher Roth Christopher Roth was the second film directed by Belgian film-maker Maxime Alexandre, who’s better known as a cinematographer on the likes of The Crazies and The Hills Have Eyes