Giuppi's Movie Reviews

Angie Dickinson made her breakthrough in 1956 with the film Gun the Man Down . Her career was more prolific in television (she received multiple Emmy nominations) than in cinema, where she was often relegated to paper-thin, even sexist roles (looking at you, Rio Bravo ). That was up until 1980, when she was cast in Brian De Palma's erotic thriller Dressed to Kill . The movie is generally held in high esteem nowadays, though there are actually many faults to be found in it. But it is an interesting view, and it offers Dickinson the chance to deliver the best performance of her career. And she does. Dickinson plays Kate Miller, a sexually frustrated housewife. The film opens with Kate's dream in which she masturbates in the shower before being murdered by a masked killer. Is it a gratuitous, needless scene? Perhaps. But Dickinson digs deep into Kate's loneliness and gives the character a painful depth another actress might have missed. In the morning, she confesses her...

Hi everyone! I'm sorry if I've being absent in the last few weeks, but I couldn't find the time to post my reviews here. I hope I'll be more active in the future, in the meantime I've decided to post here a few short reviews of some movies I've seen in the last month.  Monster  (2003) Patty Jenkins' Monster is mostly remembered for Charlize Theron's Oscar-winning turn as serial killer Aileen Wuornos. And while the actress' towering, bone-chilling performance is indeed its strongest asset, it's also a movie worth-mentioning per se. It's hardly a perfect film and from a technical point of view it leaves something to be desired. The cinematography is drab and unappealing, which could have been fitting for the story, but there's no sense of a visual style of any kind. The editing is clumsy, especially in an awkwardly done montage at the movie's end. The structure and the pace are problematic with some passages being far too rus...