≡ Category: Comedy, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy
Director: Craig Gillespie
Year: 2007
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Mr. Woodcock starts out with a perfectly serviceable premise.
John Farley (Seann William Scott) is a successful self-help author who was victimized as a kid by a sadistic, bullying PhysEd coach, Mr. Woodcock (Billy Bob Thornton). Farley’s life comes unraveled when he finds out that […]
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Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Jean-François Richet
Year: 2008
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Death Instinct takes a kaleidascopic approach to its subject. Jacques Mesrine, the most notorious criminal in France’s history, had a twenty year criminal career. It would be difficult to take the full measure of the man, even over the course of two feature films. Director […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Western
Director: Don Siegel
Year: 1976
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I suppose The Shootist is a Western, but it’s really about two things: the corrosive nature of fame and facing death with dignity.
John Bernard Books (John Wayne), famous for having killed over 30 men with his pistols, has just received a death sentence of his […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action
Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
Year: 2006
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I’m rarely impressed by directors that constantly call attention to their knowledge of movie genres, and worse still, make their homages extremely obvious so even the densest viewers will be in on the joke. City of Violence is full of Spaghetti Western iconography and music, self conscious […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Movie Reviews, Recommended, Romance, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Director: Herbert Ross
Year: 1977
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Goodbye Girl is very interesting, in a social anthropology kind of way.
It’s a comic romance between Paula McFadden (Marsha Mason) and Elliot Garfield (Richard Dreyfuss).
Paula has just been dumped by her actor boyfriend, who moved to Italy for a part in a movie […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/Comedy
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Year: 2003
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Fans of the Golden Age of Hong (1985-1995) have long been grousing that they don’t make ‘em like that anymore, which is true. Drunken Monkey demonstrates just how hard it is to recapture that old glory.
Drunken Monkey is an attempt to make a movie in […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Movie Reviews, Recommended, United States | ≅ 1 Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: John Glen
Year: 1981
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s hard to imagine, now that Daniel Craig has thoroughly redefined the image of James Bond as a hard-edged, nasty baddass, but back in the early 80s, the James Bond franchise had largely degenerated into self-satire, dominated by gadgets and increasingly silly bonmots. It didn’t […]
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If there’s anything that gets me excited, it’s when a clever writer finds a way of touching on contemporary issues of great importance through a science fiction premise. That’s what Eric Garcia has accomplished with his novel The Repossession Mambo, which has been made into the film Repo Men, coming to a theater near you.
The […]
≡ Category: Drama, Korea, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Director: Chang-dong Lee
Year: 1997
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
There have been dozens of films about young men without prospects being lured into a life of crime, but most of them are melodramas, focusing on action, violence, and florid emotions. Green Fish is different from those flicks because it is a realistic drama.
Makdong (Suk-kyu […]
≡ Category: Action, Movie Reviews, Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Various
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The good news is that the second half of Season 7 is a big improvement over the first half. After the African storyline is wrapped up in not very spectacular fashion, the show starts to delve into ideas about a Blackwater type private military contractor outfit […]