[A POLICY CHANGE FOR 2015]

I write a number of reviews over at Letterboxd, generally trying to record impressions on at least a percentage of what I watch each month. When those movies have been Krimis or Gialli, I wait to post the reviews here until I've had the time to revise/expand upon them, and to do the screencapping that has accompanied all reviews on this site. (The screencaps, esp. for lesser-seen films like the Krimis, feel like an integral part of what I'm trying to do re: spreading the word on underseen aspects of the films. The lack of an ability to post screencaps on the otherwise excellent Letterboxd platform was one of the primary reasons I started this blog last fall.)

When the films aren't Krimis or Gialli, I so far haven't posted the reviews here. For one, the Krimi/Giallo focus of the blog is important to me. For another, going through the film and capping the scenes that I want to use to illustrate this point or that takes sometimes a prohibitively long time. The prospect of doing that for 400+ movies a year is not only daunting, but paralyzing.

On the other hand, there are several reviews written for films residing in complementary genres—the Eurocrime, Euro-Gothic, Euro-Western, non-Italian Exploitation, Neo-Noir, Slasher, Action-Horror, Hammer Horror, etc.—that feel like they deserve to be part of the project happening here. To that end—and because I'd just as much like to help spread the word on fantastic and underseen movies in the above genres—I'm going to begin to post that writing here. As a rule, I won't be adding screencaps to those reviews, restricting that practice to the Krimi and Giallo reviews that are the core of this site. Also, the reviews will often focus only on isolated elements of the film, as opposed to being full-on reviews proper: They'll often be only sketches and impressions.

Apologies in advance to any reader of this site that also follows my reviews and lists on LB, as some overlap will occur (though there will be a number of reviews that never get reproduced here). And cheers to all those who have taken time to read and link to this site—the support is always encouraging!

I'll use a [REVIEW-CAST] tag for these posts; in the body of the review I'll also tag the genre(s) that the film belongs to, and include some links of note.