≡ Category: Comedy, Essential, Movie Reviews, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Brickman
Year: 1983
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
As hard as it might be to believe, there was a time when Tom Cruise was charming, when he didn’t come off as a roboticized parody of plucky, can-do American heroism. For a brief period, Tom Cruise was an actor, not a star. Actually, in […]
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One of the greatest Hong Kong directors of the late 80s and early 90s, Ringo Lam has had a very bumpy career commercially, both in Hong Kong and the United States, especially compared with his colleagues John Woo and Tsui Hark.
Lam is known for his dark, gritty, realistic (at least for Hong Kong) films, many […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Benjamin
Year: 1986
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
You won’t find many comedies that I’ll recommend on Trash Cinema Club, and that’s because there are very few really good trashy comedies. Most great comedies, such as Groundhog Day, Big, Being There, Annie Hall and Tootsie, transcend trash to become grand statements about the […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/Martial Arts
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1984
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
How much you enjoy Wheels on Meals will have a lot to do with your tolerance for broad Chinese comedy. Personally, I had a smile on my face most of the way through, but not everyone will. But even if dopey comedy isn’t your […]
≡ Category: Drama, France, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Géla Babluani
Year: 2005
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
For a flick about a gambling ring where the outcomes are decided via mass Russian roulette, 13 Tzameti doesn’t have a lot of juice to it.
That’s because there is very little context. It’s all very well to force people into a situation where they have to […]
≡ Category: Drama, Horror, Korea, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/Horror
Director: Jong-hyuk Lee
Year: 2002
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Korean filmmakers must have really been impressed with Seven and Silence of the Lambs (as well they should be). They’ve been making variations on those two movies ever since they came out. H, one fairly recent example, came out in 2002.
Now, that’s not necessarily a bad […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Movie Reviews, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy
Director: The Coen Brothers
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
After the utter discipline with which they adapted Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country For Old Men for the screen, you can hardly blame the Coen brothers for wanting to have a little fun. The trouble is, the Coens do their best work when they feel […]
≡ Category: Loose Talk, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Sometimes a flick might be worth checking out for a specific segment of the Trash Cinema Club audience that I wouldn’t otherwise recommend.
For example, if you’re a big fan of Asian action movies, you might want to check out Extreme Crisis, even though it doesn’t quite thrill on a character level.
Or maybe just one […]
≡ Category: Action, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, United Kingdom | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Britain
Genre: Action
Director: Nick Love
Year: 2007
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Outlaw is a perfectly good vigilante flick, a reaction to rising hooliganism and crooked cops in England. Or it would be, if the filmmakers hadn’t decided to lens the flick using what looks like consumer grade video equipment (more on that later).
A bunch of disillusioned men […]
≡ Category: Drama, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Wong Shu-Tong
Year: 1983
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s a shame, really. Hong Kong Specialist has all the elements in place for a good movie, but the execution is terrible.
For the most part, Hong Kong Specialist concerns the world of Hong Kong filmmakers. Especially for Westerners, it’s enlightening to see how Hong Kong […]