‘Nobody’s Children’ & ‘The White Angel’ or — A Transfixing Double-Bill?I love Italian cinema (could you tell?) and one of its biggest delights has been the post-war melodramas of Raffaello Matarazzo starring…2d ago2d ago
‘The Roses’ or — Bloomin’ Awful?I love Danny DeVito’s ‘The War of the Roses’ (1989) so even though I knew Jay Roach’s ‘The Roses’ (2025) was more an adaptation of the…5d ago5d ago
I Listened to Every Barclay James Harvest Album and Sustained Serious Head Injuries as a Result.Reading about the various existential threats facing the world yesterday I was suddenly hit by the possibility of total human extinction…Oct 26Oct 26
‘Rio Lobo’ or — Lobo-tomised?‘Rio Lobo’s (1970) cast and crew consists of a series of Hollywood legends: John Wayne (lead); Yakima Canutt (second-unit director); Jerry…Oct 24Oct 24
‘Proof of the Man’ or — Digging a Little Deeper?When a black man from Harlem is stabbed outside a Tokyo fashion show and a young woman is the victim of a hit-and-run accident only a few…Oct 23Oct 23
‘Home from the Hill’ or — VERY Dark Chocolate?Do you like chocolate, specifically dark chocolate? (If you desire greater chromatic accuracy for what’s to come then imagine the…Oct 20Oct 20
‘My Son, The Hero’ or — Clash of the Ludicrous Titans?In 1965 writer/director Duccio Tessari and actor Giuliano Gemma made two of the most wildly entertaining Italian westerns I’ve ever seen —…Oct 19Oct 19
‘Messalina’ or — More Fun Than ‘Cleopatra’?As someone who’s rather partial to a mouth-watering slice of Vittorio Cottafavi, I couldn’t resist diving into his 1960 peplum ‘Messalina’…Oct 11Oct 11
‘Sex and Zen’ or — Tickled Pink?If what I’m writing this morning contains even more spelling mistekes than usual that’s only because every single muscle in my entire body…Oct 7Oct 7
‘Brigadoon’ or — The Colour of Dreamstuff?The opening to Brigadoon (1954) is, quite frankly, bloody ridiculous: everything is fake, nothing is natural and the result is an…Oct 6Oct 6
