≡ Category: Action, Korea, Movie Reviews, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action
Director: Je-gyu Kang
Year: 1999
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
A Korean attempt at an American-style action thriller, Shiri paradoxically succeeds because of it’s very Korean subject matter and stylistic quirks.
It seems that the North Korean 8th Special Forces are determined to sabotage official attempts at reunification between North Korea and South Korea. To this end, […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts
Director: Yuen Wo-Ping
Year: 1993
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Tai Chi Master comes right smack in the middle of Yuen Wo-Ping’s most creative period as a fight choreographer, and is probably a tad below the quality of his wire work masterpiece, Once Upon A Time in China […]
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WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT TRASH CINEMA?
In a word, catharsis.
Many of the great movements in trash cinema have come about as the result of social upheaval and economic uncertainty.
HONG KONG’S GOLDEN AGE
For example, the Hong Kong’s Golden Age from 1985 to 1995 was largely prompted by paranoia over the impending hand over of Hong Kong from […]
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I just started writing reviews for movies that are currently in theatrical release. I figured that those of you who trust my reviews would find my reviews of current releases useful in determining where to spend your precious entertainment dollars.
I’m going to stick to my policy on reviews, which is to only review movies on this […]
≡ Category: Action, Highly Recommended, Movie Reviews, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Year: 2007
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Shooter is a popcorn thriller aimed straight at red state viewers.
Bob Lee Swagger (Mark Wahlberg) is a U.S. Marine marksman who was hung out to dry, and left to die on a black ops mission in Ethiopia. He manages to make it back to the […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: George Armitage
Year: 1997
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
The central joke of Grosse Pointe Blank is that it presents the vocation of hitman as a viable career choice, just another high pressure job, with all of the politics and pressures to conform that entails. After all, the filmmakers seem […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts
Director: Gordon Chan
Year: 1994
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
For those of you who watch Hong Kong movies for the fight scenes, have I got a movie for you. Fist of Legend is practically nothing but wall to wall hand to hand combat, all of it fantastic. Sure, the end fight between Jet […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Dayid Ayer
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
There have been plenty of flicks about corrupt L.A. cops: Dark Blue, Training Day, L.A. Confidential, and Dirty are a few that come to mind. So do we really need another one like Street Kings?
Well, that depends how much of a […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: Richard Donner
Year: 1976
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
During the 70s, that paragon of rectitude, actor Gregory Peck, briefly gravitated towards trash cinema. In The Boys From Brazil, he hilariously played against type as Dr. Josef Mengele, the concentration camp doctor who conducted hideous experiments on his prisoners.
In The Omen, […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Bullet Ballet
Director: Patrick Leung
Year: 1996
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Lean to the point of anorexia at a scant 85 minutes, Beyond Hypothermia belongs to that quintessentially Hong Kong subgenre, the contract killer love story.
Cheng (the lovely Ng Sin-Lin) is the contract killer with ice water in her veins who ritualistically visits a noodle […]