Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Bullet Ballet
Director: John Woo
Year: 1987

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If you expect any kind of verisimilitude in your action movies, you’re pretty much out of luck with A Better Tomorrow Part II, although there are plenty of unintentional laughs to be had, along with the expected generous helping of heroic bloodshed.
A Better Tomorrow […]

Country: Spain
Genre: Drama
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Year: 1998

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Those familiar with the work of director Pedro Almodóvar will know that his films tend to be considered Art, with a capital A, especially these days. All About My Mother won the best foreign film Oscar a few years back. Almodóvar is notorious for writing strong […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Lau Kar-Wing
Year: 1988

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Hong Kong triad melodramas are often really good at manipulating you into hating the villains so much that by the end of the movie, you catch yourself yelling at the screen “Kill him. Kill the mother^#@%#$!” Unfortunately, the filmmakers seldom follow through as well as […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Johnny To
Year: 1991

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
An early near classic from director Johnny To, Casino Raiders II has many of the hallmarks of Hong Kong’s golden age (1985 - 1995), but there are differences, too.
The violence is brutal and the melodrama is purple, but Johnny To was already making changes […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Bullet Ballet
Director: John Woo
Year: 1986

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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Oh, the melodrama of it all! John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow has no use for distancing irony, subtlety, or discretion. No, it wears it’s bleeding heart on its sleeve. A Better Tomorrow leaves no opportunity for pathos unexploited — it’s like Beaches or Sleepless […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts
Director: Sam Daat-Wai
Year: 1992

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
A guilty pleasure even by the standards of Hong Kong cinema, A Kickboxer’s Tears is worth recommending mostly by virtue of its almost non-stop action.
When Li Lung (Ken Lo) refuses to throw a kickboxing match, evil promoter Wang (Fong Lung) decides special measures are […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1992

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Who would have thought director Sammo Hung would have had a poetic wuxia movie like The Moon Warriors in him?
The Moon Warriors starts out conventionally enough. 13th Prince (Kenny Bee), together with his bodyguard Mo Xian Er (Maggie Cheung) flee 14th Prince (Kelvin Wong), […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 2004

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
There are those who would say that Moving Targets is nothing new, and they have a point. It’s yet another triads versus cops tale, starring kids who look like they should be cutting their high school classes to sneak a cigarette under the bleachers. The […]

Country: Korea
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ji-woon Kim
Year: 1998

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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Korean comedies tend to be very dark, and The Quiet Family is no exception. Usually, Korean black comedies tend to be horror movies first and comedies second, like Oldboy, but The Quiet Family reverses that priority.
The movie starts oddly, concentrating on one of the most bored […]

Country: United States
Genre: Comedy
Director: Kevin Smith
Year: 1994

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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Clerks has a $1.98 budget, was shot in black and white, and features amateurish acting, indifferent directing and a frequently lame plot. How can it possibly be a Trash Cinema Essential?
Because it contains some of the most inventively profane dialog and riffing ever committed to […]