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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1989
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For a Westerner, watching God of Gamblers is a very odd experience. The movie’s 2nd act is goofy comedy, bracketed by deadly serious 1st and 3rd acts, but the whole thing plays off of the Chinese obsession with gambling.
Chow Yun Fat is Ko Chun, the […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Andrew Davis
Year: 1985
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Nothing says trash like the name Chuck Norris. Chucky started his career in the late 70s with cheapjack martial arts garbage like Good Guys Wear Black. By 1985, he had worked his way up to Dirty Harry rejects.
Yes, Code of Silence was a script that […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror/Science Fiction
Director: Ridley Scott
Year: 1979
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I remember the first time I saw Alien. I caught the ten o’clock show on a Friday night at a theater in the local mall. The show was packed with young and dumb kids about my age, who were throwing paper at the screen, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Various
Year: 2001
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
At the beginning of the second half of the second season of 24, we seem to heading into the home stretch. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) has discovered the location of the nuclear device the terrorists intend to explode in Los Angeles and the majority of the […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Bryan Singer
Year: 2006
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Superman Returns doesn’t quite work, but it sure isn’t for lack of trying. Director Bryan Singer clearly knows a thing or two about the Superman universe. He understands that the 1978 Superman was good but flawed, and that Superman II was practically perfect. He realizes […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/Action
Director: David Cronenberg
Year: 2005
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
From the first scene of A History of Violence, you know you’re in good hands. There are cicadas on the soundtrack. The camera slowly pans to a screen door and two men step out. One is wearing a black jacket and a dark shirt, open […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: John Landis
Year: 1981
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I don’t hold a very high opinion of writer/director John Landis. More often than not, he makes crappy films. Worse, he’s a murdering bastard. On the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie, against the advice of his stunt coordinators, he set off gigantic explosions in […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/Action
Director: Michael Apted
Year: 2002
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I was amused when I found out that Michael Apted had directed Enough, the J Lo potboiler about domestic abuse. Apted tends to attach himself to high minded prestige projects like Thunderheart, the documentary 35-Up, Gorillas in the Mist and so on.
I was doubly amused […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: Bryan Singer
Year: 2000
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CLASSICS THAT I HATE
X-Men starts out with a thoughtful and resonant idea. If there were mutants in this world who had extraordinary abilities like the ability to read minds, walk through walls, or manipulate magnetic fields, how would governments react?
Director Bryan Singer is very explicit about […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Peter Berg
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Director Peter Berg’s Hancock starts out with what passes for a reasonably provocative premise these days. What if a superhero were a pissed off wino who sleeps on park benches? What would that look like?
It’s a promising premise because it gives the filmmakers an opportunity […]