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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Horror
Director: Herman Yau
Year: 1997
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Walk In is what happens when Hong Kong filmmakers get hold of the body switching genre as exemplified by American movies like Big and Vice Versa.
As our story opens, Li Yee Wah (Ng Sin-Lin) is preparing to commit suicide by leaping off […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Parkman Wong
Year: 1990
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The Unmatchable Match supplies yet more proof that Stephen Chow, at least in the late 80s and early 90s, ruined pretty much every movie he appeared in. He isn’t remotely funny, clever or sympathetic. What makes things worse is that Chow clearly thought […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts/ Romance
Director: Brandy Yuen
Year: 1988
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WORTH A LOOK
Imagine if you will a Hong Kong version of the Matt Damon/ George Clooney Oceans 11 flicks. You see, there’s an ancient Koran that the “three” of the title are fighting over. (Really, the title is a misnomer. These three are against […]
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Country: Argentina
Genre: Drama
Director: Juan José Campanella
Year: 2009
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Retired prosecutor Benjamín Esposito (Ricardo Darín) is one obsessed guy. He still can’t get over a case involving the rape and murder of Liliana Coloto (Carla Quevedo), which took place twenty years earlier. He’s also holding a torch for his old boss, Irene Hastings (Soledad […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Ritt
Year: 1963
Rating:
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As an entertainment, Hud is likely to frustrate modern viewers. It’s little more than a character study with a little sociological context tacked on.
Hud (Paul Newman) has spent the last 17 years or so working on his daddy’s cattle ranch and he’s sick of it. […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Ben Affleck
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I’m sorry to report that, artistically speaking, The Town is a step backwards for director Ben Affleck. With Gone Baby Gone, Affleck proved that he could helm a naturalistic, warts and all depiction of middle class life.
With The Town, Affleck had the added task of […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: David Fincher
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Every once in a while, I see a movie that thrills, not because of it’s subject matter, but because it’s so superbly scripted, acted and lensed. The Social Network is such a picture.
What’s it about? The making of Facebook. Let’s see. We’ve got a social […]
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Country: France
Genre: Comedy
Director: Francis Veber
Year: 1998
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The Dinner Game has a pithy premise. It seems that a group of blue blood bastards scour Paris for eccentrics they can invite to weekly dinners in order to make fun of them. These eccentrics have hobbies like throwing a boomerang to relieve stress or collecting […]
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Country: France
Genre: Suspense/ Romance
Director: Jérôme Salle
Year: 2005
Rating:
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Anthony Zimmer proceeds from a classic Hitchcockian premise.
The title character launders money for the Russian mob through an ingenious scheme involving phony lawsuits with companies based in countries that are financial havens, like Bermuda. The police figure out his game but Zimmer eludes them […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Cheng Siu-Keung
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
At first, Sam The Iron Bridge AKA The White Lotus Cult appears as though it’s going to be rather complex. The White Lotus Cult, headed by Chan (Ji Chun-Hua), is dedicated to countering Western influence in China, often by violent means. When Tieh (Yip […]