Author Archives: Fabrizio del Wrongo

About Fabrizio del Wrongo

Recovering liberal arts major. Unrepentant movie nut. Aspiring boozehound.

Exploitation Movie Posters

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: These days, everyone loves old exploitation movies — even smart people. In fact, it seems to me that old exploitation movies are to the artsy-smartsy set of today what Hollywood classics starring Bogart and Cagney were to the artsy-smartsy … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial art, Movies, Performers, Sex | Tagged 13 Assassins, American International Pictures, Audition, Blaxploitation, Breakdown, Crank, Edwige Fenech, Exploitation, Frank Tashlin, Freeway, Greg McLean, Grindhouse, Herschell Gordon Lewis, horror, Ichi the Killer, Jack Hill, Jonathan Demme, Jonathan Mostow, Kung Fu, Matthew Bright, Movie Posters, movies, Neveldine/Taylor, Pam Grier, Quentin Tarantino, Rob Zombie, Roberta Collins, Roger Corman, Russ Meyer, Sam Fuller, Sam Peckinpah, Sid Haig, Takashi Miike, The Devil's Rejects, The Human Centipede, Tom Six, Wolf's Creek | 18 Comments

25 Awesome Things About “Rio Bravo”

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Please feel free to add your own. 1. The names: Chance, Dude, Stumpy, Colorado, Feathers. 2. The bit where Chance kisses Stumpy on the head, then runs out the door like a little kid who’s just stolen … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Music, Performers | Tagged Angie Dickinson, Dean Martin, Howard Hawks, John Wayne, movies, Ricky Nelson, Rio Bravo, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, westerns | 8 Comments

Bait & Switch

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Sometimes I’m not sure what a television ad is trying to sell me. Oh, I know what the product being advertised is, more or less. It’s the experience the ad is attempting to associate with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Humor, Music, Performers, Personal reflections, Sex, Television | Tagged Adult Friend Finder, Advertising, Alicia Keys, Citi, Conan the fucking Barbarian, Duckface, Empowerment, Lightspeed University, Madonna, Male Gaze, Marilyn Monroe, Men, Private Pass, Tawnee Stone, Validation | 18 Comments

“Margin Call”

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Margin Call” is an ensemble drama that treats the 2008 financial meltdown as a race-against-time thriller. Written and directed by newcomer J. C. Chandor, the movie takes you behind the hermetic glass sheathing of a prominent … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics | Tagged finance, Honey Badger, J.C. Chandor, Jeremy Irons, Margin Call, movies, Star Wars | 7 Comments

Ballplay

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I’m currently enjoying a media blackout phase. Consequently, I’m trying to stay away from the television. Still, I sometimes have a nature show or something running in the background as … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal reflections, Sex, Sports, Television, Women men and fashion | Tagged Advertising, Baseball, David Ortiz, Forearm Spooge, Masturbation, Men, OkCupid, SkyMall, Sportscrap, The Matrix | 16 Comments

“Journey’s End”

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Based on a play by R. C. Sherriff, the 1930 “Journey’s End” is a good example of a movie which benefits from its stage origins. It’s less a war film than a waiting-through-a-war film: for most … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies, Performers | Tagged All Quiet On the Western Front, Colin Clive, David Manners, Dawn Patrol, Ernest Hemingway, Great War, Ian MacLaren, James Whale, Journey's End, Laurence Olivier, movies, R. C. Sherriff, Richard Barthelmess, War Films, Westfront 1918, World War I | 2 Comments

Campus Cuties, by Louis Marx and Company

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: During the years immediately following the Second World War, Louis Marx and Company was the largest toy producer in the world. The outfit was mainly known for its molded plastic figures, many of them sold in … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial art, Personal reflections | Tagged 1960s, Action Figures, Barbie, Belle & Sebastian, Campus Cuties, Dolores Hart, Fashion, Feminism, G.I. Joe, Hasbro, James Bond, Kenner, Louis Marx and Company, Mattel, Paula Prentiss, Playboy, Playsets, Post-War America, Sears, Star Wars, The Twist, Toys, Where the Boys Are, Yvette Mimieux | 21 Comments

“The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque”

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: When you think of New Wave filmmakers who’ve delved into politics Eric Rohmer probably isn’t the first guy to spring to mind. And for good reason: he was always the group’s miniaturist-philosopher, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Movies, Performers, Politics and Economics | Tagged architecture, Casualism, Cinema Verite, Conservationism, Conservatism, Environmentalism, Eric Rohmer, France, Gustave Courbet, movies, Musicals, politics, Socialism | 8 Comments

“The Kissing Bandit,” Frank Sinatra, and Ricardo Montalban

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Fabrizio del Wrongo

Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: I’ve been going through some of the lesser-known MGM musicals of late. There’s a lot of dreck hiding out in that celebrated body of work. But one of the things you quickly realize is that even … Continue reading →