≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Essential, Movie Reviews, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: John McTiernan
Year: 1995
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Director John McTiernen and screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh waste no time getting around to the good stuff in Die Hard: With A Vengeance. Within minutes, mad bomber Simon (Jeremy Irons) is playing a game of Simon Says, sending John McClane (Bruce Willis) on one wild goose […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: Tsui Hark/Ringo Lam
Year: 1992
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In any Jackie Chan movie, there are bound to be some cool stunts and some decent fighting, and Twin Dragons is no exception. You can also expect some goofy comedy, and here’s where Twin Dragons goes wrong. The balance between the action and comedy […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Year: 1997
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I have to admit, when I saw Jackie Brown the first time, I was disappointed. I guess I was expecting something along the lines of Pulp Fiction, with it’s non-stop craziness. There’s not a lot of action in Jackie Brown. In fact, what violence does […]
≡ Category: Drama, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Yang Feng-Liang
Year: 1997
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Charles Heung is one of Hong Kong’s most successful producers. At the time Dragon Town Story was made, Zhang Yimou was the most important director of China’s 5th wave. These men were two of the producers of Dragon Town Story, an odd fusion of the […]
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When Rambo, the fourth installment of the Sylvester Stallone franchise, came out, I was among the people affectionately mocking the idea of a 60 year old man being an action hero. Mind you, I really enjoyed the movie (see my review of Rambo), but I did include a crack about being grateful that he didn’t […]
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Country: Australia
Genre: Action
Director: George Miller
Year: 1981
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
When we last left Max (Mel Gibson), he had lost his soul and had become just another burned out scavenger in a barren post-apocalyptic future. The Road Warrior (AKA Mad Max 2) sets itself up as the fable of how Max became whole again.
Director George Miller […]
≡ Category: Action, Highly Recommended, Movie Reviews, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: John Woo
Year: 1997
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Many John Woo fans like Face/Off the most of all of his American films because it has an operatic feel to it, the way his films in Hong Kong do. That’s true, but Face/Off is also maddeningly inconsistent.
True, it’s got fantastic action sequences, like […]
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Country: Australia
Genre: Action
Director: George Miller
Year: 1979
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Director George Miller lets you know you’re in good hands within the first minute or two of Mad Max. The tone is extremely specific. The music score is vaguely self-mocking — it could have come from an early 1960s television war series, like the Rat Patrol. […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Movie Reviews, Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy
Director: Tom Shadyac
Year: 1997
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Talk about the ultimate high concept comedy - “A lawyer has to spend 24 hours without being able to tell a lie.” That’s got to be some kind of record. You basically know what the movie’s about in 14 words.
And of course, it’s a Brian […]
≡ Category: Drama, Mainland China, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: China
Genre: Drama/Martial Arts
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Year: 2006
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The Legend of the Black Scorpion is a very odd movie. It’s a combination of leisurely and elaborately art directed set pieces, intricate and coded court intrigues, and surprisingly bloody kung fu battles of the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon variety, courtesy of master martial arts choreographer […]