Italian mob drama “written by Giulio Base and William Shakespeare.”
“I am a bad man, do you have anything to cure this?” … Michele Anacondia is the Italian reincarnation of Macbeth. In a short time he has ascended the mob ladder, going from custodian of the arsenal to the very top, but nothing seems to give him peace. His thirst for power, fueled by his greedy and vengeful wife, has led him to commit the most brutal crimes, but what remorse can he feel, since he is incapable of real repentance?
I like the 2001 version of Macbeth that is set in a chain of fast-food restaurants in Scotland, Pennsylvania the best. It starred James Le Gros, which meant it was doomed at the box office, but it also had Maura Tierney, Keven Corrigan, and Christopher Walken (he played MacDuff). Oh, and in looking this up, I found it also had Amy Smart in it. She’s good too.
You might enjoy Jo Nesbo’s MacBeth (2018) set in 70s Scotland. Fairly faithful reading of the original, though not much nudity, it being a book.
And then there’s Chuck MacBeth, the high school student from West Texas who would have finished second in his class, but killed the would-be valedictorian, Billy Bob “King” Duncan, before the latter could finish his final semester. Tragically, he was then killed in turn by the third-place guy, a Eurasian of mixed Scottish-Vietnamese ancestry named Minh MacDuff.
Life is brutal in Texas.
Five months into 2025 and there is no female nudity in new movies or series. They just show naked dicks everywhere. It’s really sad that we have to go back to a movie from 2022 to feel better.