Colin Edwards·Oct 11, 2025‘Messalina’ or — More Fun Than ‘Cleopatra’?As someone who’s rather partial to a mouth-watering slice of Vittorio Cottafavi, I couldn’t resist diving into his 1960 peplum ‘Messalina’…
Colin Edwards·Jul 4, 2025‘Una Donna Libera’ or — Cottafavi’s Self-Metatextual Whipped Cream-Filled Puff Pastry?Vittorio Cottafavi’s ‘Una Donna Libera’ (1954), or ‘A Free Woman’, is, on the face of it, your typical black and white Italian melodrama…
Colin Edwards·Apr 19, 2024‘Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis’ or — More Exciting than ‘Ben-Hur’?Before the Poliziotteschi, before the Giallo, before the Spaghetti Western was the Peplum, the wildly popular and financially successful…
