≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Year: 1983
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In the early 80s, traditional kung fu movies were waning in popularity. As a studio, Shaw Brothers was beginning to look like a dinosaur.
Director/action choreographer/performer Liu Chia-Liang addressed these challenges directly with Lady Is The Boss.
When a martial arts academy in Hong […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Italy, Not Worth Your Time, Spaghetti Western | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Spaghetti Western
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Year: 1976
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
When the first images of Keoma appeared on the TV, I got excited. A door in the right corner of the frame creaks back and forth, driven by the wind. In the far background, through the door, we see a lone rider. […]
≡ Category: Action, Highly Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Action
Director: John Dahl
Year: 2001
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I remember admiring Joy Ride the first time I saw it, and I fully expected to give it four stars this time out, but about 15 minutes in, I thought I had erred on the side of caution because it was so friggin’ […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Wilson Yip
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
After the original Ip Man became a massive hit, the producers had a problem — they had already used up their most dramatic material. The public demand for a sequel was deafening. After Ip Man emigrated to Hong Kong at the […]
≡ Category: Drama, Italy, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Year: 2000
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
100 Steps drops you right in the middle of a complex network of Italian families with no explanation. We know it’s the 60s by the cars and the music. There’s a celebration outside at a farmhouse. We hear from the conversation that these men used […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1985
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Tonally, Heart of the Dragon is one heck of a strange movie.
Fung (Jackie Chan) has dreams. He’d like to sail around the world and get married, roughly in that order. But he’s got a problem. His older brother, Do Do (Sammo […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Romance, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Romance
Director: Sergio Martino
Year: 1975
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
While watching Gambling City, I realized with a start that star Luc Merenda is far prettier than any of his leading ladies, kind of like Ashton Kuchner, accept that Luc actually looks like a man. And I’ve got to give him points for charm. When he’s […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Japan, Recommended, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Kenji Misumi
Year: 1962
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Tale of Zatoichi may not be the most engaging of the Zatoichi flicks, but it is the first, and sets the pattern of the rest of the series.
Zatoichi (Shintarô Katsu) has been invited to stay at the home of Shigezô (Ryuzo Shimada), […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Stanley Tong
Year: 1996
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
In the mid 90s, Jackie Chan was trying, once again, to crack the international markets. Hence First Strike, a picture which features standard spy action cliches like large scale gun battles, rocket launchers, underwater fight scenes, ski chase scenes, and explosions, leavened with Jackie’s […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Ghost, Hong Kong, Romance, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Ghost/ Romance
Director: Ringo Lam
Year: 1983
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
When Cheng Siu Yee (the breathtaking Joyce Ngai) dies in an accident, her ghost hounds insurance adjuster Koo Chi Ming (Alan Tam) to pay off the claim. Before you know it, the spirit of love is in the air.
Esprit D’amour is a mostly light-hearted […]