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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Mainstream
Director: Renny Harlin
Year: 1996
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I’m not sure why The Long Kiss Goodnight wasn’t a bigger success when it came out. It is certainly entertaining enough. Maybe the leftist politics woven into the plot alienated patrons in the flyover states.
After all, the idea that a US Government agency […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay
Director: Joe Ma
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s not easy to make a film with the premise of Sasori nearly unwatchable, but director Joe Ma does his best.
Nami Matsushima (Mizuno Miki) is waiting for her boyfriend, Hei Tai (Dylan Kuo), to bring his father and sister home from the airport, when her […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Martin Scorcese
Year: 1972
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I don’t know what I expected of Boxcar Bertha, but I was still nonplussed by what I got.
Boxcar Bertha’s rambling, episodic narrative structure is a far cry from the laser like focus of Taxi Driver, filmed only four years later. For that matter, Alice […]
≡ Category: Drama, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Derek Yee
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I don’t suppose I should be surprised that Protege is as good as it is. After all, it was directed by Derek Yee, whose other films include People’s Hero, C’est La Vie Mon Cheri, and the great five hanky romance Lost In Time.
Protege features that […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Wayne Kramer
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Going in, I had a fair amount of curiosity about Crossing Over.
On the one hand, the critics had almost been uniformly hostile. They said Crossing Over was ludicrously melodramatic, like a cut-rate Crash (now there’s an insult), and many of them were incensed by a […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/Exploitation
Director: Gwai Chi-Hung
Year: 1974
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I’m not a big fan of the Shaw Brothers house style, so I wasn’t really looking forward to seeing Bamboo House of Dolls. I figured, the Chinese are fairly modest now (Category III flicks are fairly tame in terms of sexual content), so back in […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Mainstream
Director: James Foley
Year: 1999
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I don’t know if it’s still true, but Chow Yun-Fat used to be a huge star in Asia. In some quarters, he is greatly admired in Hollywood. And back when The Corruptor was released, everyone was trying to figure out, how can we […]
≡ Category: Action, Essential, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action
Director: Yuen Wo-Ping
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
After enduring the lackluster Danger Has Two Faces, I felt like I owed myself a treat, so I finally sat down and watched the legendary Tiger Cage, which I’d only seen in bits and pieces up until now.
Tiger Cage starts out with a blistering action […]
≡ Category: Blaxploitation, Movie Reviews, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Blaxploitation
Director: D’Urville Martin
Year: 1975
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
For a while there, it seemed like Dolemite was going to be a blaxploitation classic. It starts out in fine style, with Dolemite (comedian Rudy Ray Moore) signifying, wearing snazzy ghetto threads, and trying out his (nonexistent) karate moves.
At first glance, Rudy Ray Moore would seem […]
≡ Category: Action, Hong Kong, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action
Director: Alex Cheung
Year: 1985
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Danger Has Two Faces is one of those transitional films caught between the older Shaw Brothers style and the Golden Age of Hong Kong. Oddly enough, as the film progresses, it becomes steadily more modern.
At first, the acting and direction are so hyper-stylized that the […]