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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Year: 1967
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
As I’ve said before, one of the qualities I look for in Trash Cinema is that it be unreasonably entertaining. The whole point of Trash Cinema is not to bore the audience.
But every once in a while, a serious film comes along which is just […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/Action
Director: Daniel Lee
Year: 2000
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Mong Fu (Andy Lau), has just finished a 13 year sentence in prison, for a crime he is clearly ashamed of committing. Mong Fu used to be a kickboxer, and had an affair with Pim (Intira Jaroenpura), a Thai documentarist, right before he went […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Comedy
Director: Greg Mottola
Year: 2008
Rating:
CLASSICS THAT I HATE
Superbad is a funny movie. Not ha-ha funny, although occasionally it is that, too.
There are a handful of laugh-out-loud one-liners during the running time of Superbad. Just in case you decide to ignore my advice and watch the movie anyway, I’m not about to […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Girls With Guns
Director: Gwok Bo-Cheong
Year: 1991
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Every time I watch a movie I haven’t seen before from Hong Kong’s Golden Age (1985-1995), I have high hopes, even if it’s a made in the Phillipines cheapie. That’s because the pool of talent was so large in those days that even […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Year: 1997
Rating:
CLASSICS THAT I HATE
For me, the first warning sign that I wasn’t going to like Air Force One much was the uber-patriotic score played over the credits, before a single image has been viewed.
Maybe I’ve just lived through too many bad presidents, but I find that sort of […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Bullet Ballet
Director: Parkman Wong
Year: 1991
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Red Shield is one of the lesser titles from Hong Kong’s Golden Age, but it does have it’s compensations.
The plot is pretty rudimentary. Hor Lung (Ben Lam) is a lieutenant in a gang of arms dealers out of Mainland China. He’s making a power play, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Schwentke
Year: 2005
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Funny thing — if Flightplan was truly a successful movie, I wouldn’t be writing about it on this website. That’s because Flightplan starts off as a classy psychological thriller. If the filmmakers had any balls, they would have carried the implications of the script all […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Year: 1973
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Gang War in Milan (Milano Rovente) is a mixed bag, no doubt about it.
The filmmaking, by director Umberto Lenzi, is just functional, with plenty of that trendy 70s zoom stinking up the screen. The music cues are laughable, and the sound editing is downright horrible. Worse still, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Avnet
Year: 2007
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
88 Minutes announces itself as crap from the get go with asinine dialogue and ham handed atmospherics, not to mention trying as hard as possible to be just plain gross (not that we object to grossness on general principles here at TrashCinemaClub.com).
How bad is the […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Gwai Chi-Hung
Year: 1975
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Big Brother Cheng makes Dirty Harry look like ACLU propaganda. That in itself is charming, as far as I’m concerned.
In the prologue, we find out that Cheng (Chen Kuan-Tai) was driven away from his teahouse by gangsters. He attempted to live a quiet life in the […]