“Wild Blood (Sanguepazzo)” is the 2008 WWII drama from director Marco Tullio Giordana, highly anticipated in the Lavazza Italian Film Festival because it’s the latest movie featuring shapely Italian actress Monica Belluci. Belluci plays the tragic figure of real-life actress Luisa Ferida, a strong-willed country girl that came to Rome to become an actress. She […]
The film opens with a whirlwind of images: philosophy undergraduate student, Marta (Isabella Ragonese), finishes her degree with the highest accolades, expects to be showered with offers from research institutions, only to find rejection in academia. She realizes that her classmates, less idealistic, have taken the lowly road to gold. After four years of quiet
“Woyzeck” deals with a German rifleman, named Woyzeck, who, at 40 years old, is still at the lowest rank in the army, penniless and poor. He has a child with a young woman, out of wedlock, and gives her all his money, little as it is, to take care of the child. Woyzeck is not
The teen sex comedy genre reached epic heights in the 80s, when a flurry of releases made being a teenager seem wild again; the genre always seemed to pit boys against girls, in the quest to see who could have risky, unprotected sex. Since then, however, the hedonism and irresponsibility of those days have been
I can easily classify “The Girl by the Lake”, by Italian director Andrea Molaioli, as a suspensful murder mystery, however there’s nothing really typical about it. When a clue gets discovered or unravelled, it’s not a spectacular moment and there’s no dramatic music. In fact even when the inspector solves the case you’re almost uncertain
I managed to score two free tickets to see the advance screener preview of The Hills Have Eyes through Vice Magazine. It’s pretty exciting getting free movie tickets, and even more exciting if it’s for a sneak preview. That was the extent of the excitement, though, as The Hills Have Eyes was a tepid pool
Another Roger Corman produced movie makes its way this time taking the B-movie into an apocalyptic future, where civilization has been reduced to isolated cities and groups of nomads that wander the barren plains. As with many movies that feature “Deathsport” is a terrible movie made for a shoestring budget to capitalize on some of
It’s hard to finger exactly what it is about the film that irks me. Really, there’s everything in it fantasy creatures, English private school accents, betrayal, redemption, candy. if it had gratutious nudity and some toilet humour, it will be a college hit. In spite of what it has, the film feels hollow to me.
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The whole idea of a Perhaps Love (2005) has been done to death, nearly to the point of cliche. We’ve seen it countless times before, and we’ll see it again, I’m sure. I’m even guilty of it myself I wrote a script for a film called Prenez Vos Places, a French/English movie about two guys
It’d be easy to shrug this film off “Memories of Matsuko” is on topical viewings, a cartoon coloured over saturated musical with emotionally manipulative material. To dismiss this movie would be a disservice to Japanese cinema, which, the more movies I watch, seem to walk the lines of bad execution to create singularly spectacular visions.
