Silent Action (La polizia accusa: il servizio segreto uccide) first published by Little White Lies, as entry 124 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column “A press release and a handful of front pages. Then it’s gonna be the back pages tomorrow – and who cares when everything will be forgotten, right?” This is the complaint of…
Let The Corpses Tan first published by Sight & Sound, in a preview piece on the Cult strand from the London Film Festival 2017 The searing sun. A shot is heard. A bullet shell falls. Extreme close-ups on three faces. A gun is aimed. A man says, “I never miss, is this what you want?” A…
First published by Little White Lies “I figure I’m doing OK, why change what’s working?” So, near the beginning of Eurocrime! The Italian Cope and Gangster Films That Ruled the ’70s, says actor Henry Silva of his willingness to keep playing gangster roles throughout the Seventies in the cheap, quickie Italian crime flicks known as…