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  • Death Walks on High Heels

    ★★★★

  • The Ballad of Tam Lin

    ★★★

  • Rome, Armed to the Teeth

    ★★★★★

  • Body Double

    ★★★★

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  • Death Walks on High Heels

    Death Walks on High Heels

    ★★★★

    Cleverly disguised as a giallo, this film is really a whodunnit at heart. A French stripper (who needs to learn how to lock doors and windows) is threatened by a man who is demanding the location of jewels that her murdered father stole. She flees to England with an obsessive fan and that’s where the suspects turn up. All of the tropes are there: cheesy nightclub scenes, straight razor, trenchcoats and scantily clad women, but director Luciano ErcolI keeps us guessing enough to make this film a refreshing surprise.

  • The Ballad of Tam Lin

    The Ballad of Tam Lin

    ★★★

    The ballad of Tam Lin gets a hip counterculture remake and is also the lone director’s role for Roddy McDowell. Ava Gardner (who still is mesmerizing) stars as a witch living in a manor with a coven of young hippie types. Her boy toy is a young Ian McShane, who meets a local girl and wants to break free from Gardner’s spell. Slow paced, at times too artsy and really I wanted more of a mod urban vibe, but ultimately…

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  • Rome, Armed to the Teeth

    Rome, Armed to the Teeth

    ★★★★★

    Maurizio MerlI stars as a Dirty Harry copy who hates the rules and loves to slap. Rome in the 70s is either the most crime ridden city on the planet, or he is the luckiest slappiest cop ever. If he’s not working on the big case or hating the rules, he is constantly running into hapless street thugs doing something illegal. When he does, he gets to slap you. Sometimes he’ll take you into the station and slap you some…

  • Body Double

    Body Double

    ★★★★

    Good flick, but after rewatching I could have sworn everyone was sweatier.

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