≡ Category: Action, Movie Reviews, Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Len Wiseman
Year: 2007
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Live Free Or Die Hard is the only one of the Die Hard movies that isn’t rated R for profanity and graphic violence. In interviews around the time of the film’s release, Bruce Willis swore up and down that Live Free Or Die Hard wasn’t […]
≡ Category: Drama, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Derek Chiu
Year: 2007
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
In style and content, Brothers is 180 degrees diametrically opposite from the typical triad picture from Hong Kong’s Golden Age (1985-1995).
The old style was run and gun on a shoestring. Brothers has a stately, elegant, almost Hollywood classicist directing style. The camera glides through carefully […]
≡ Category: Drama, Movie Reviews, Recommended, United Kingdom | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Drama
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Last King of Scotland is another one of those movies about African people in which the major protagonist is once again, a white person.
I guess the folks at the major studios figure that without a white character for middle America to identify with, no […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Wong Fung
Year: 1980
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
For those of you visit Trash Cinema Club regularly, you know that I’m crazy about Hong Kong cinema and I’m also a big fan of Chow Yun-Fat. So, you know that if I cannot sit through a Chow Yun Fat movie, it’s got to be […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Movie Reviews, Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/Action
Director: Scott Frank
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Lookout is a pleasant surprise from writer/director Scott Frank, who first appeared upon the scene as the screenwriter of the wretched reincarnation “thriller” Dead Again.
I probably shouldn’t be so hard on Scott Frank. After all, Dead Again was directed by Kenneth Branagh, one of […]
≡ Category: Action, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Marc Forster
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
As I was watching Quantum of Solace, I was reminded of what happened after Saving Private Ryan came out. For a year and a half, any time there was an action sequence, it was filmed with the shutter half open in order to give the […]
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There’s a forum on this site, but no one is using it. Maybe because no one is aware that it’s here.
If that’s the case, it’s an easy fix. The link to the forum is in the top left corner menu.
If people don’t want to talk about what’s in the forum, let me know what you […]
≡ Category: Fantasy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/Fantasy
Director: Benny Chan
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I can’t quite recommend The Magic Crane, but that doesn’t mean it lacks entertainment value. The Magic Crane is one of many fantasy wuxia movies that were popular in Hong Kong during the early 1990s. I actually thought it was filmed in the late 1980s […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, Italy, Movie Reviews | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Director: Liliana Cavani
Year: 2002
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Watching Ripley’s Game, you feel like writer/director Liliana Cavani was inspired in part by director Anthony Minghella’s 1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley.
When we last left Tom Ripley (John Malkovich), he was a tortured soul who had found and lost the love of his life. Since […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Bullet Ballet
Director: Bruce Law
Year: 1998
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Extreme Crisis has a lot going for it: Attractive leads like Shu Qi, Julian Cheung, Theresa Lee, and Sawada Kenya, nervewracking stunts engineered by director Bruce Law, a plot ripped from the headlines (the sarin nerve gas attacks in a subway by a Japanese religious […]