≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Essential, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Tsui Hark
Year: 1986
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Tsui Hark’s blockbuster, Peking Opera Blues, has everything that makes Hong Kong movies so special, and more: it’s got drama, thriller elements, romance, villainy, goofy comedy, gunplay, and martial arts, sometimes combining several in the same scene. But Peking Opera Blues adds in historical spectacle […]
≡ Category: Drama, Essential, Movie Reviews, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Oliver Stone
Year: 1986
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I recall Oliver Stone being quoted as saying something to the effect that he was going to try to fit everything but the kitchen sink into his film Salvador because his was likely the only film that was ever going to be made about the […]
≡ Category: Blaxploitation, Classics That I Hate | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Blacksploitation
Director: Gordon Parks, Jr.
Year: 1972
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I don’t care if Superfly is considered a blaxploitation cinema classic. I still don’t recommend that you take 90 minutes out of your life to see it.
I admit that Curtis Mayfield’s score kicks ass. There’s some good NYC atmosphere, and you gotta dig those snazzy 70s fashions […]
≡ Category: Mainland China, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: China
Genre: Martial Arts
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Year: 1983
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I am not generally a big fan of the Shaw Brothers martials arts pictures, but I felt it was my duty to watch 8 Diagram Pole Fighter because it is considered an absolute classic of the genre.
Eight Diagram Pole Fighter has the heavily stylized, artificial […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: David Lai/Corey Yuen
Year: 1996
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Sau Din (Josephine Siao) is a policewoman with a gambling problem so bad she has an informer make bets for her on the sly so she doesn’t get in trouble with her superiors. At one point, she has to borrow money from an […]
≡ Category: Classics That I Hate, Horror | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: John Carpenter
Year: 1978
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Where do I start? The low octane pacing? The bludgeoning obviousness of it all? The deadly dull score?
I have to admit, back in 1978, a madman systematically picking off teenagers had a certain amount of novelty appeal, but the old saw of dead bodies […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Thriller/Horror
Director: Jonathan Demme
Year: 1991
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The Silence of the Lambs won the Academy Award for Best Picture and has Anthony Hopkins’ most celebrated performance. What could I possibly have against it?
Well, the two central performances, to start with. Hopkins hams it up in the role of Hannibal Lecter, reducing what should be hypnotically […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: Tobe Hooper
Year: 1974
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In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Sally, her wheelchair bound brother Franklin and some friends investigate the desecration of a graveyard, where Sally’s grandfather is buried. On a side trip to her grandfather’s old house, they encounter a chainsaw wielding maniac and his brood.
Unlike Friday the 13th, the makers […]
≡ Category: Classics That I Hate, Horror | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: Sean Cunningham
Year: 1980
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Friday the 13th is the mother of all reductive teenagers have sex and then get killed horribly movies.
The story? In 1957 at Camp Crystal Lake, a young boy drowns and two camp counselors are murdered, prompting the closing of the camp. When the camp […]
≡ Category: Classics That I Hate, Horror | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: Wes Craven
Year: 1972
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The Last House on the Left is Ingmar Bergman’s Virgin Spring as a grade Z horror movie.
Two teenage girls trying to score marijuana to smoke at a rock concert get kidnapped, raped and murdered for what seems like days. Through unlikely coincidence, the murderers end up at the parents’ […]