December 5, 2014 Community Following Citadel, here’s some more hoodie-horror with Community, which manages the not inconsiderable task of being set in quite possibly the most run down, scuzziest and essentially unpleasant looking estate in England
November 30, 2014 Far North Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a sucker for snowbound films. Anything from Fargo to The Thing, heck, even Snowbeast
November 24, 2014 The Purge The Purge has a neat idea and it’s not badly executed. Kind of a cross between Straw Dogs, Assault on Precinct 13 and The Tenth Victim
October 16, 2014 Italian westerns in the forests of the Sila, an interview with Sergio Grieco Here’s an interview with Sergio Grieco translated from an old copy of Unita. I don’t believe there’s any other interview with Grieco anywhere. I’d love to be proved wrong because he was a decent director who has been rather forgotten and was never really appreciated as much as he deserved.
September 15, 2014 Janine Hendy Janine Hendy was one of the more prominent black actresses to work in Italian cinema during the early 1960s. Perhaps her best known roles were in the two Taur films directed by Antonio Leonviola in 1963, Taur, il re della forza bruta and more particularly Thor and the Amazon Women, in which she played the antagonist to the titular hero Joe Robinson.
September 8, 2014 I ragazzi della Roma violenta I ragazzi della Roma violenta is about 85 minutes of unhesitatingly sordid events running into one another, none of which have any consequence, repercussions or prelude.
September 1, 2014 Between God, the Devil and a Winchester Between God, the Devil and a Winchester not only has a fantastic title, but is also a pretty solid film. It does borrow heavily from it’s peers, admittedly, but is assembled in a capable and functional fashion