I think I wrote in a previous post how frustrating this blog became when I am watching maybe a dozen films on a week off work but find myself within a format of my own making that resulted in me reviewing only about one a month. The solution that I came up with was to open the Italian Film Review blog.

This is a decision I do not for a second regret as the capsule review format means I can finally get things out there about some of my favourite Italian movies. I do not want this new blog however to place me in a predicament. Sometimes capsule reviews will not be near enough.

Could I, for example, deal with the movie I watched this evening in a few lines? Since that movie was Don't Torture A Duckling the answer is evidently no. Could I adequately cover Cannibal Holocaust in a similar fashion? Again, I think not. These are just two examples of movies that I could not adequately deal with, let alone contextualise within the limits of a few paragraphs. The solution of course is to run the three blogs in parallel so I think this is what I will do.

I will place capsule reviews of Italian film in Italian Film Review, other genre film in short reviews on Continental Film Review.

This blogging liberation has meant that I have been able in the past week to look upon this place more fondly and I think it may be a good idea if, maybe after an xmas break, I feel the urge to deal with films such as Don't Torture A Duckling in more depth then it may be a good idea to blow away the cobwebs on I Spit On Your Taste and take her out for yet another spin.

In the mean time I am finally getting to publish some of the reviews that I have been itching to write for some time. I am using the brief review format mainly because I have hundreds of these to catch up on and, you never know, someone may find it a handy spot for suggestions for something to watch from the exciting world of Italian genre cinema.

So in the meantime I have thrown together a few brief reviews, not all great I will admit, of a few eurocrime, some gialli, comedy, horror films.

The list of reviews published to date is as follows:

All The Colours Of The Dark
Anthropophagus
Bandits in Milan
Boss, Il
Calling All Police Cars
Cat In The Brain
Day Of The Cobra
Death Occured Last Night
Don't Torture A Duckling
Fear Over The City
French Sex Murders
From Corleone To Brooklyn
Gangsters Law
How We Robbed The Bank Of Italy
Lickerish Quartet
Manhunt
Massacre
My Sister In Law
Naked You Die
Ogro
Rabid Dogs
seduction
Sisters
Special Cop In Action
To Be Twenty
Uranium Conspiracy
Weapons Of Death
Zombie Flesh Eaters

And I will be adding to these daily, some reviewed from memory simply because the movie is seared into my brain, others upon re watching, and others maybe typing up notes I made in the past.

Anyway for the time being

I am writing here (Click!!!!)

but I am confident that we will meet again in these parts, probably some time in the new year. So a big thank you to those who said not to nuke this place.

Finally, having been quarantined for swine flu, I have found some time to get my Italian genre film blog up and running. To partner it with the Continental Film Review Blog I have titled this one simply Italian Film Review. Both titles incidentally chosen as homages to the delightful Continental Film Review magazine that promoted continental European cinema to English speaking audiences from the 1950s through to early 1980s.

I would welcome any friends of I Spit On Your Taste to pop by.

http://italianfilmreview.blogspot.com/

I promise to try and pop a few factlets in the reviews occasionally and generally give a feel for the feature under discussion but I will start from the premise that less is sometimes more and as with Continental Film Review will try and cut reviews to the key points.

If any movie bloggers are reading this. Would you consider maybe giving a little publicity to this project

http://spitonyourtaste.blogspot.com/2009/10/kickstart-eurocrime-documentary.html

It is a worthy cause and the documentary I feel so many of us fans of Italian genre film have been crying out for.

The original project page is here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1511274331/eurocrime-cinema-documentary-needs-to-begin-licen

Between us I am sure, in our little corner of the blogosphere that covers niche and cult film we can reach a fairly large audience. So if this goes viral then we can make Mike's exciting project a reality. Thank you for reading and my new blog will be up and running shortly- one dedicated to cult Italian cinema from the 60s,70s and 80s.