≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Girls With Guns, Martial Arts, Movie Reviews By Country, Not Worth Your Time, Phillipines | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Phillipines
Genre: Action/Bullet Ballet/Girls With Guns/ Martial Arts
Director: Godfrey Ho/ Phillip Ko Fei
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Poor Oshima Yukari. She’s got charisma to burn, she’s cute as a button, and she can fight, but throughout her career, she kept getting stuck propping up incompetent directors like Godfrey Ho and Phillip Ko Fei, the ‘geniuses’ […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Science Fiction/ Drama
Director: James Cameron
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The first thing that has to be said about Avatar is that it’s visually astounding. The level of detail in each frame is so vast that it boggles the mind. Writer/director James Cameron and his army of visual artists and technicians have […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Girls With Guns/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Phillip Ko Fei
Year: 1989
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Considering the immense amount of talent in front of the camera, Final Run has to count as a major disappointment. Final Run came out in 1989, smack in the middle of the Golden Age of Hong Kong […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Asif Kapadia
Year: 2007
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Far North is that rarest of things, an exquisitely written, acted, and photographed movie which completely self destructs in the final reel.
According to the shaman of her tribe, Saiva (Michelle Yeoh) is cursed to bring bad fortune to anyone she’s around. She’s cast out of […]
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Country: Brazil
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: José Padilha
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
As a country, the United States has been on a thirty year long slide towards becoming a banana republic, but as grim as things seem now, they could be worse. Just check out the Brazil of Elite Squad.
Capitão Nascimento (Wagner Moura), one of the captains […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Comedy
Director: Christine Jeffs
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I hate to rain on Sunshine Cleaning’s parade, but for a supposedly life-affirming dramedy, it’s awfully grim.
That it’s grim is not a problem in and of itself. I have nothing against dramatic comedies that make you want to slit your throat. It’s that the intention […]
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Country: Brazil
Genre: Exploitation/ Action
Director: Oswaldo de Oliveira
Year: 1980
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
One thing I have to say for Bare Behind Bars — it delivers on it’s title. For the first half of the movie, it’s pretty much wall to wall boobs, butts and pussy, along with mostly simulated lesbian sex. Now, we’re not talking about […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Rod Lurie
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The problem with a movie like Nothing But The Truth is that it is execution dependent. If all the cylinders aren’t firing, it won’t work. And writer/director Rod Lurie has yet to make a movie that is competent from beginning to end.
After reporter Rachel Armstrong (Kate […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Year: 1997
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I am chagrined to admit that I sought out Wild Animals because it was written and directed by Ki-duk Kim, who is responsible for such elegant and provocative films as The Bow, 3-Iron, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring, Bad Guy, and The Isle.
Wild Animals […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Art/ Drama
Director: Shi-Zheng Chen
Year: 2007
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Dark Matter has an engaging subject. How does a brilliant and idealistic young person from another culture cope with institutional politics in a university setting?
Writer/director Shi-Zheng Chen doesn’t quite succeed in making a coherent film from this material, for a variety of reasons, but mostly […]