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Claudio Cassinelli
Blu-Ray Review: Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Taking their influences from both France and the United States, Italian Poliziotteschi films of the 1960s and 1970s mix hard-boiled crime-fighting with a lot of running and chasing. Reacting to a soaring crime rate and a period of political turmoil within the country, more often than not they featured a vigilante in some shape of …
Blu-Ray Review: The Suspicious Death of a Minor
The first gialli films are considered to be Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much and Blood and Black Lace. However, it was Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage which really announced the birth of a new sub-genre. Sergio Martino made a total of six gialli films (including Torso), introducing erotic elements …