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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Category III/ Drama/ Bullet Ballet/ Horror/ Exploitation/ Martial Arts/ Suspense
Director: Johnny Lee
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
In A Day Without Policemen, screenwriters Laai Gwong-Fai, Goo Bing-Git, Desmond Wu, and Johnny Lee come up with many intriguing ideas. They pit the natural instinct for self-preservation against the desire to protect women and family. […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Crocodile Hunter is a throwaway, one of hundreds of similar action comedies that were churned out during Hong Kong’s Golden Age. The plot, such as it is, is a mere excuse on which to hang shaggy action sequences and the comedic musings of writer/director/producer […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I was really jazzed when I sat down to watch Blade Of Fury. It came out in 1993, during Hong Kong’s golden age, was directed and choreographed by Sammo Hung, and stars the great Ti Lung. I figured it couldn’t miss.
I was a […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Comedy/ Suspense
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I have a love/hate relationship with Wong Jing, leaning heavily towards the hate side of the equation. Wong Jing loves toilet humor, he pretty much has contempt for the screenwriting verities, and his taste is firmly in the gutter. To give […]
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Country: Mexico
Genre: Science Fiction
Director: Alex Rivera
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Sleep Dealer starts out with a mindblowing vision: in the Mexico of the future, water rights are privatized at the point of a gun; the border to the United States is closed; Sleep Dealers — that is, virtual factories — run day and night in […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Peter Chan/ Raymond Yip
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When The Warlords first starts out, you’re primed for a heroic, gutsy, edgy adventure flick. The battles, which take place in the Qing Dynasty, are brutal, graphic and expertly choreographed by Tony Ching Siu-Tung. The male camaraderie of the title […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Mainstream
Director: Ridley Scott
Year: 2010
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Let me give you the bad news upfront: Robin Hood fails as drama, action, adventure, and romance.
Robin Hood is a reminder that it’s really, really hard to make a good movie, or for that matter, any movie at all. Look at the advantages […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Mainstream
Director: Taylor Hackford
Year: 1993
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The problems with Blood In Blood Out AKA Bound By Honor reveal themselves right away. Director Taylor Hackford tromps on the Chicano milieau of East Los Angeles REALLY hard. This is a mistake. Chicano culture is vibrant, dare I say even loud. You […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Dennis Law
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Director Dennis Law’s latest flick, Bad Blood, is a corker.
After Andy Lok, the head of a triad gang, dies, there are problems related to passing the baton of leadership, as well as a great deal of money owed to the triad […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: Eli Roth
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I wasn’t really looking forward to Hostel 2 because I had heard that Eli Roth planned a distaff version of the first movie. In general, I don’t get much pleasure out of watching women being tortured. For me, the graphic torture of the Japanese tourist […]