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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Danny Boyle/ Loveleen Tandan
Year: 2008
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For most people, a tour of the slums of Mumbai would be intolerably depressing. But director Danny Boyle and writer Simon Beaufoy had the genius idea to camouflage the harrowing experiences of Mumbai street kids (or slumdogs, as they are apparently called […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Kwon-tae Ahn/ Kyung-Taek Kwak
Year: 2008
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
As wonderful as Korean movies often are, and as technically proficient as they are in practically every area of filmmaking, there are some things that Koreans just can’t seem to pull off.
If they try to be cool and do something like pull off […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Horror
Director: Joseph Ruben
Year: 1987
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
There are two factors that edge The Stepfather over into greatness: one of the wittiest suspense scripts ever written, courtesy of novelist Donald Westlake, and a stunning performance by Terry O’Quinn as the title loony.
You see, Jerry Blake (Terry O’Quinn) is driven to […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action
Director: Frankie Chan
Year: 1992
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The premise of Fun And Fury is utter simplicity. Singaporean cop Wai Hon (Leon Lai) is in love with Ching Ha (Vivian Chow) the daughter of triad kingpin Mr. Ma (Kent Cheng). Mr. Ma wouldn’t be happy about this situation under the best of […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: John Hough
Year: 1974
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I just saw Dirty Mary Crazy Larry for the first time in 36 years and was shocked to find out that the movie was better than I remembered. First, you can read the review I wrote a couple of years ago, based on my […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Matteo Garrone
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I knew going in that Gomorra wasn’t going to be a laugh riot, but as a critic, I felt obliged to see this universally lauded film about the Camorra crime family. And guess what? It’s pretty much as good as the critics say.
Gomorra is filmed in […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1966
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Torn Curtain shows a lamentable lack of judgement from the normally reliable Alfred Hitchcock.
Would you believe Paul Newman as a nuclear physicist? Me either. I love Paul Newman, but he’s working class all the way, not an intellectual. Why did Hitchcock cast him?
Well, it […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Horror/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Dick Cho
Year: 1998
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
A Chinese Torture Chamber Story II may not be the nonstop exercise in hilarity that the first installment in the series was, but it tells a wonderfully perverse tale in it’s own right.
As our story begins, Lotus Wong (Yolinda Yan) […]
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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Horror/ Satire
Director: Christopher Smith
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The first laugh in Severance comes within seconds. The first thing we hear is elevator music. Then we get a visual: two terrified twenty-something bimbos running through the forest as if they’re being chased by a maniac, which they are.
I don’t think […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Horror/ Art
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Year: 1997
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
A murder is committed. The killer remembers doing it but has no idea why. So begins the genuinely unsettling horror move, Cure.
Writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa employs none of the standard techniques for this sort of movie. No music which tells you what you’re supposed to be […]