L’insegnante viene a casa (1978)
The Schoolteacher In the House is directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini, whose film La Liceale is a major success of the commedia sexy all’italiana genre. He also made Massacre In Dinosaur Valley and The Sword of the Barbarians. I always find it amusing that Luciano Martino wrote the stories for these movies (the script is by Tarantini, Francesco Milizia, Marino […]
MVD BLU RAY RELEASE: The Beatles and India (2021)
Filmed across India at all the sites of the Beatles’ visits — Mumbai, New Delhi, Rishikesh and Dehradun — and featuring an array of unseen photographs, footage and interviews uncovered in India during research on the project — including unseen footage from a film shot at the ashram but never released and an interview with […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Director Jean-François Richet and writer James DeMonaco — who went on to create The Purge series — had quite a challenge: how do you remake a John Carpenter classic? After a failed sting operation, Detroit Police Sergeant Jake Roenick (Ethan Hawke) has hit rock bottom as he’s placed on desk duty at the soon-to-be-closed Precinct 13. On […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY REVIEW: Martin Short Double Feature – Cross My Heart / Pure Luck (1987, 1991)
Cross My Heart (1987): Armyan Bernstein is usually known as a producer, but he directed and co-wrote this movie with Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman co-creator Gail Parent. It has similarities to When Harry Met Sally as David Morgan (Martin Short) and Kathy (Annette O’Toole) — our lead couple — are continually advised by their respective friends Bruce […]
L’insegnante va in collegio (1978)
The Schoolteacher Goes to Boys’ High finds Edwige Fenech playing a different schoolteacher — Monica Sebastiani instead of Giovannona — but the idea is still the same. All Italian men are pent-up sticks of dynamite and Fenech is, as always, the glorious match. Director Mariano Laurenti, who also wrote the story that screenwriters Franco Mercuri and […]
MVD BLU RAY RELEASE: Aliens, Claws and Geeks (2019)
A day before his new television show Cry Me Dry goes on the air, it gets canceled and nothing actor Eddy Pine (Bodhi Elfman) says or does can get it back. His Hollywood career over before it’s begun, Eddy drinks himself into oblivion while dealing with a clown who shoves a mind-controlling obelisk up his ass […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: George Clooney Double Feature – The American / Leatherheads (2010/2008)
The American (2010): Based on the 1990 novel A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth, The American finds George Clooney playing Jack, a gunsmith and contract killer, who is also known as Edward when he gets spotted, a fact that he finds him killing his lover Ingrid (Irina Björklund) to keep from being found out. He leaves […]
BUCHEON INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL: Evil Come, Evil Go (1974)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When […]
The Lonesome Trail (2019)
Based on the book by Arlette Thomas-Fletcher, who also directed the movie, The Lonesome Trail is all about Mike McCray, a cattle baron trying to keep new homesteaders out of his mining town and Carlson, the preacher who rescues them with his Bible instead of a gun. But when the ruthless McCray attacks again, even Carlson’s family […]
L’insegnante (1975)
The Schoolteacher is the first of the five-film Insegnante series, three of which have Edwige Fenech in the lead (the others have Nadia Cassini and Anna Maria Rizzoli). The story is always pretty simple and as they say, ne derivano cose stupide. Fefe Mottola (Vittorio Caprioli) wants his son Franco (Alfedo Pea) to graduate, so he […]
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