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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Horror/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Jeng Kin-Ping
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Suburb Murder is pretty hard to take seriously. I was sorta willing to overlook the multiple gang rapes (surely one or two would have been enough), the gratuitous visits to massage parlours and so forth, but what really put it over […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Greg Marcks
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The Echelon Conspiracy may have roughly 1/10 of the budget of Eagle Eye, but it is only half as stupid. Which is not to say that Echelon Conspiracy is a good movie. There are frequent lapses in believability, for one thing.
For example, let’s say that […]
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I just saw an indisputably good movie, The Great Silence AKA Il Grande Silenzio, but for all I know, it could well have been truly great. Why the uncertainty? Because the only version I could get hold of was dubbed.
The Great Silence is a spaghetti western, so obviously it was originally in Italian.
There are many […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action/ Martial Arts/ Romance
Director: Alfred Cheung
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Hong Kong is the birthplace of the dreaded nonsense comedy, the former British colony’s answer to Jerry Lewis. In other words, watching these so-called comedies is about as amusing as witnessing a partial abortion to most non-Chinese people. (Stephen Chow […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: John Madden
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
How much you’re going to enjoy Killshot will depend mostly on whether you buy the characters delineated in the script by screenwriter Hossein Amini, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard. I remember really enjoying the novel, but that might simply mean that the stylized […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Year: 1972
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The biggest strength of Un Flic is it’s willingness to take it’s time, to develop atmosphere and suspense, to dwell on procedural details. Unfortunately, writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville allows this leisurely pace to extend to even the most boring scenes, in which nothing much of note occurs, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Mark Lester
Year: 1985
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Commando is a bit of a joke, but it’s a good one.
The first we see of John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a fetishized, extreme closeup of his tree-like biceps. You might wonder if you accidentally popped in a gay porno DVD by mistake, but soon […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Girls With Guns/ Martial Arts
Director: Yip Shing-Hong
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
There’s loads of action in Cheetah On Fire and it’s got plenty of fun stars like Shing Fu-On, Ken Lo, Carrie Ng, Gordon Liu, Donnie Yen, Michael Woods, John Salvitti, and Eddie Ko, but I can’t seem to […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Western
Director: Don Siegel
Year: 1970
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Considering that it’s a western, Two Mules For Sister Sara doesn’t have a whole lot of action. There’s a short shootout, an explosion, someone gets shot with an arrow, and someone else faces a firing squad. That’s about it, not counting the storming of a […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If it weren’t for the hard hitting martial arts and crazy stunts, I wouldn’t have believed that A Book Of Heroes came out in the late eighties. It feels more like the early 80s. Achingly saccharine pop hits like “Girls Just Wanna […]