Episode 46: Goodfellas. Martin Scorsese directed this 1990 movie, starring Ray Liotta as Henry Hill, an Irish/Italian American gangster working in a New York mafia gang through the 1960s and 70s. With superb supporting roles featuring Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci amongst others, this movie ...
A six-part Italian drama series that follows a group of riot police. It’s based on a 2012 film called A.C.A.B., which in itself was based on a book by journalist Carlo Bonini. The story takes a while to get going but it’s a particularly prescient topic — perhaps more these da...
Irène took the role of Mabrouka in the historical epic,Lion of the Desert(El león del desierto, 1981) which recounts the last years of the real-life Omar Mukhtar (Anthony Quinn), the leader of Libyan rebels who resisted Italian rule and Mussolini’s forays into Libya between 1911 and 19...
One of the better horror movies of 2024, Immaculate first streamed in the US on Hulu in August, but it’s now available to UK viewers. Sydney Sweeney stars as a nun in an order based in the Italian countryside, before she is groomed as a sort of "chosen one". And it’s not the ...
One of the better horror movies of 2024, Immaculate first streamed in the US on Hulu in August, but it’s now available to UK viewers. Sydney Sweeney stars as a nun in an order based in the Italian countryside, before she is groomed as a sort of "chosen one". And it’s not the...