≡ Category: Action, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended, Satire, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/Satire
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I remember when Kick-Ass came out, there was a brouhaha over an eleven-year-old character in the movie using foul language. These critics kind of missed the point.
Kick-Ass is an examination of the superhero mythos in the cold, clear light of reality. Or at least that’s […]
≡ Category: Action, Mainstream, Recommended, Science Fiction, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/Science Fiction/Mainstream
Director: Roland Emmerich
Year: 2009
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I think that 2012 is supposed to be fun, but it might be a little too intense for that. Don’t get me wrong — the science is ridiculous, the individual characterizations are rather shallow, and the Perils-Of-Pauline escapes are just as over the top […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Horror/ Category III
Director: Billy Tang
Year: 1993
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In Hollywood cinema, we have a tradition of immigrant gangsters who make the American version look like pansies. Most recently, they’ve come from the Eastern bloc countries, such as the former Soviet Union. Before that, Jamaicans were briefly the badasses […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Petrie
Year: 1989
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
There are few more entertaining experiences at the movies than watching James Woods trying to outrun a boulder bearing down on him by running his mouth.
In My Name Is Bill W., Woods plays Bill Wilson, fresh from the battlefields of World War I, […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Romance
Director: Benny Chan
Year: 1990
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Once you kindle a flame in the heart of an Asian girl on the cusp of womanhood, it’s almost impossible to extinguish (with the possible exception of infidelity). That’s what triad solder Wah Dee (Andy Lau) learns when he repeatedly rescues rich girl […]
≡ Category: Action, Australia, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/Romance
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Year: 2008
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
How much rope you’re willing to give Australia will have a lot to do with the type of movies you like. Do you adore broad, epic, romantic action movies where the motivations and characters are blazingly obvious? Do you have such an affection for old […]
≡ Category: Drama, France, Highly Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Suspense/ Drama
Director: Fred Cavayé
Year: 2008
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In their movies, one of the things Europeans and especially the French do as naturally as breathing is matter of factness, the tossed off detail. Americans usually suck at this. They often succumb to the temptation to pump up moments until they cease to […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Suspense/ Horror/ Satire
Director: Various
Year: 2007
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s becoming more clear than ever what Dexter is all about. The core struggle in the series is Dexter’s search for personal fulfillment juxtaposed against deadening responsibility and sacrifice. In the first season, Dexter sought meaning in familiar relationships; in the second, […]
≡ Category: Action, Romance, Suspense, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/Suspense/Romance
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Year: 2010
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WORTH A LOOK
Not long ago, I reviewed the French movie The Tourist is based on, Anthony Zimmer, in these pages. More often than not, when a foreign movie is remade as an American movie, everything that was special about the original is excised or dumbed down. […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Pierson
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED
In the interest of full disclosure, let me just say that I’m a huge James Woods fan. I normally shy away from television movies, but I made an exception for Citizen Cohn. I happened to be reading about James Woods, and he apparently said “I don’t […]