LOOK OUT FOR THE BOOK
Giuseppe Genna – Big Red Mother
Guido Lopez, an interim detective at the Milan central police department, is playing tennis with a stranger. Immediately after, a huge explosion shakes his...
CAIN'S MOVIE COLLECTION
Ugly, Dirty and Bad
Down and dirty is too important to simply be defined by a movie genre. A grotesque comedy, perhaps, but sometimes also a drama and...
Scent of a Woman
Scent of a Woman (1974) is an Italian Comedy Film based on Giovanni Arpino’s novel The Darkness and The Honey (Il buio e il...
MAKING MOVIES
The Band’s Visit
Alexandria of Egypt police’s musical band arrive at Tel Aviv airport, Israel, wearing their blue uniforms. Only some of the eight musicians have an idea of English language. They have been invited by the...
Polular
Cataldo Russo – Courtiers, Court Jesters and Mafia Bosses
Antonio Schifino, a worker in Italy during the seventies, frozen against his will, wakes up 10 years later in a country that has changed...
Clara Arosio – Perspectives and characters in Fruttero’s and Lucentini’s crime novels
Parallel investigation
In this essay, Clara Arosio studies two books – The Sunday Woman (Harcourt Brace, 1973) and A che punto è la notte – ...
Stefano Di Marino – Tiger’s brigades
Adventure, ladies & gentlemen!
Paris: Between the year 1912 and 1913, at a crucial moment in history. Stéphane Renard, the commissioner of the Police Brigades...
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking
Los Angeles, 1987. The Sunset Strip shimmers, swarms to a hybrid beat of pop, metal and glam fashion. Harley Davidsons, fishnet stockings, studs, black...
Bewitched [Stregati] (1986) and Francesco Nuti’s cinema
Director: Francesco Nuti. Story and Screenplay: Francesco Nuti, Vincenzo Cerami, Giovanni Veronesi. Photography: Giuseppe Ruzzolini. Soundtrack: Giovanni Nuti. Production: Gianfranco Piccioni. Distribution: Columbia. Duration:...
Sin City – A Dame To Kill For
After nine years, Basin City, alias Sin City, is still a crossroads for madmen, killers, pimps and dark, very dark ladies. May Revenge be...
Ernesto Masina – The Fascist Vegetable Garden
Tragicomic provincial story
It’s with clear delight and gentle writing that nearly octogenarian Ernesto Masina challenges himself with this first work, a tragicomic, fantasy story...
Francesca Nodari – Dolores’ Story
A missed opportunity
This is a story of the conflicts between the author and her father, with a small provincial town near Brescia - indifferent...
POCKET REVIEWS
THOSE AMAZING RECORDS!
READ BY THE PROFESSIONAL
Dan Simmons – The Terror
In 1845, the Erebus and the Terror, two English sailing ships, sail in search of the legendary Northwest Passage, but remain stuck in the...
Robert Crais – Taken
With Taken I renewed the pleasure of reading a story by Elvis Cole and his friend and partner Joe Pyke, who investigate the disappearance...
Robert J. Conley – Geronimo. An American legend
Geronimo, an American legend. Twenty years ago, Walter Hill's movie was written by John Milius. I translated Robert J. Conley's novel, which was far...
Richard Stark and Darwyn Cole – Slayground
Hard boiled afternoon lesson: Slayground (in Italian Luna-Parker) by Richard Stark (pseudonym of Donald E. Westlake). Very strained, all set in a disquieting amusement...
Augusto De Angelis – The Murdered Banker – Six Women and...
In The murdered banker, commissioner Carlo De Vincenzi, a careful investigator of human nature, must exonerate a friend from an overwhelming accusation of murder....
William Dalrymple – Return of a King
William Dalrymple, an expert on the Indian sub-continent (In India and Delhi are two great books to understand India) takes us to Afghanistan, in...
Jack London – The Paths Men Take
The Paths Men Take is a book that presents a wide selection of photographs taken by Jack London during his travels, accompanied by an...
Ross Macdonald – The Moving Target
Detective Harper is instructed by Elaine Sampson, a high society lady, to find her husband Ralph Sampson, a wealthy self-made man in the oil...
William De Andrea – Killed With a Passion
Matt Cobb has to deal with alleged corruption of a network of people in the small town where he went to university.
In between business...
SEEN BY THE PROFESSIONAL
MOVIE BLENDER
Robocop
When Detroit becomes the experiment for a new military technology, only a man inside a...
Captain Harlock 3D
In a faraway future humanity abandoned a polluted Earth and lives in colonies on the...
World War Z
A health crisis gets the World population in peril when infected people spread such a...
Star Trek Into Darkness
After a terrorist attack, the Enterprise and its crew face a new powerful enemy called...
Man of Steel
In a world without heroes, the “S” of Superman stands for “Hope” of not being...
