Italy strikes back with ... Calibro 70

Here comes something really cool. A must for all lovers of Italian “polizieschi” (Cop Movies from the Seventies). Calibro 70 is a short movie, written (together with Ivan Fabio Perna), directed and indipendently produced by Alessandro Rota. The director,...

La settima donna (The Last House on the Beach) DVD coming in 2007

In the seventies Craven’s The Last House on the Left spawned a series of italian rip-offs including movies like Hitch Hike, Late Night Trains, Terror Express, The House on the Edge of the Park, Pleasure Shop on the 7th...

Torino Film Festival - Awards Recipients

And here are all winners....

Torino Film Festival - Wrap Up: Masters of Horror

Last years Torino Film Festival screened six episodes of the first season of the Masters of Horror, creating quite a buzz (especially the Joe Dante and John Carpenter episodes were well received). As told by Mick Garris before the...

Paolo Sorrentino's L'amico di famiglia (The Family Friend)

L’amico di famiglia (The Family Friend), the new movie written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino opens in italian cinemas November 10. Presented, to mixed reviews, at the last Cannes Film Festival it is the follow-up to Sorrentino’s brilliant Le...

Torino Film Festival Lineup announced

The complete lineup for this year's Torino Film Festival (10-18 November) has been announced and its pretty awesome. Flags of our Fathers, Big Bang Bang Juvenile A, Election 2, Marie Antoinette, Bug and El laberinto del Fauno are some...

Dark Resurrection - Unofficial Italian Star Wars Short

Lately i stumbled across the website for a short movie called Dark Resurrection, that caught my attention. But what is DR about? Here is an excerpt from the Official Website: DR is a short no-profit film inspired by the...

Mon Amour Tokyo - The Trilogy

The end of the seventies was the time when japanese anime began invading italian television channels. Millions of italian kids grew up watching these, now classic, cartoons and some were more passionate then others about Giant Robots. One of...