≡ Category: Action, Drama, Essential, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/Action
Director: Ringo Lam
Year: 1987
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Most of the way through, Prison on Fire is startling for it’s realism. There is no great attempt to make the Hong Kong prison system look particularly inhuman. Prison life in Hong Kong may not be comfortable, but neither is there an official attempt to […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Larry Bishop
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s a pity, really. Writer/Director Larry Bishop gets a lot right in his post modern update of classic biker pictures. The look of the picture is just right, that low budget faded technicolor that comes with working with a minimum of lights. There’s plenty of […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/Drama/Comedy
Director: Tsui Hark
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I’m sorry to report that Once Upon A Time In China 3 is a distinct disimprovement over the first two entries in the series.
The plot isn’t the problem per se, although in a way it is the source. Let me explain what I mean by […]
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I have received a request from the producers of The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact And Legacy Of Jaws to cancel the contest, so I am honoring their wishes.
I apologize for any disappointment this has caused.
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The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact And Legacy Of Jaws is a spanking new, three hour documentary on […]
≡ Category: Art Films, Drama, Essential, Hong Kong, Loose Talk, Mainland China, Movie Reviews | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong/Mainland China
Genre: Drama
Director: Chen Kaige
Year: 1993
Rating:
ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Continuing my reviews of art films with the impact of the most tawdry trash cinema, we come to probably the most wrenching historical drama ever made, Farewell My Concubine, starring the awesome trio of Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, and Zhang Feng-Yi, the last of whom holds […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror/Action
Director: Renny Harlin
Year: 1999
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In Deep Blue Sea, Dr. Susan McCallister (hottie Saffron Burrows) genetically alters the brains of captive sharks in the hopes of developing a cure to Alzheimer’s disease. The only problem is that the sharks become smarter as a side effect of the research. Uh, oh.
There’s […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Director: Erik Hollander
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Die-hard fans of Jaws can sit in front of a TV and watch Jaws lore for hours, with a big smile on their faces the whole time. For people like that, it almost doesn’t matter how astute the observations of the talking heads are, or […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Various
Year: 2004-2005
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
The fourth season of 24 starts a bit slow, but it picks up in the second half of the season. There are a number of surprises, and the writers find a number of ways to push Jack into new territory.
Folks of a liberal bent will be […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/Romance
Director: Derek Yee
Year: 2003
Rating:
ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Let me say one thing at the outset — Lost In Time is in no way trash cinema. So why am I including it on this site? Let me answer a question with a question. What is it I love so much about trash cinema? Trash cinema […]
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Hi, faithful readers.
Yesterday, I checked out the Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, California.
For those of you who don’t know, the Alamo Drafthouse is a movie theater in Austin, Texas that specializes in showing trash cinema on “Terror Tuesdays” and “Weird Wednesdays.” It’s curated by Zack Carlson and Lars Nilsen, […]