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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Albert Lai
Year: 1993
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The Golden Age of Hong Kong (1985-1995) is known for cranking out tight little B movies with flavorful (if broad) acting, lots of melodrama, and plenty of mindblowing martial arts choreography and stunts.
That’s why A Serious Shock! Yes Madam! AKA Death Triangle […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Satire/ Martial Arts
Director: Mang Hoi
Year: 1989
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
You’ve got to wonder what HK filmmakers saw in Cynthia Rothrock. Sure, she can fight, but she can’t act and she has negative charisma. Every time Cynthia shows up on the screen, she drags Lady Reporter AKA The Blonde Fury down to […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Spain, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Spain
Genre: Comedy
Director: Bigas Luna
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Aspiring filmmakers who want clues about how to make a compelling film on a shoestring could do a lot worse than to study Jamon Jamon. The film takes place in some Godforsaken location in Spain, dominated by a highway with nonstop truck traffic, with a bar/whorehouse being […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Year: 2011
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Near the beginning of Unknown, Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) gets into an automobile accident and is given artificial resuscitation at the scene. Cut to the hospital, where he’s waking up after four days in a concussion-induced coma, which subsequently casts doubts on the […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Robert Luketic
Year: 2010
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Killers is one of those paint by numbers Hollywood flicks in which there is hardly a word of dialog that any real person would ever speak under any circumstances whatsoever. The motivations are bullshit. In fact, it’s pretty much all bullshit, from beginning to end. […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Suspense
Director: William Friedkin
Year: 1971
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
The French Connection is based on a real life case, which at the time resulted in the biggest seizure of heroin in the United States up to that time. Director William Friedkin honors the real life origins of this tale by using modified […]
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Country: France
Genre: Comedy/ Romance
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Year: 2010
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Normally, I watch French romantic comedies because I’m looking for subtlety, something that resembles real human behavior, and a respite from the usual infantile American romantic male leads. Out of luck.
In this case, my wife wanted to see Heartbreaker and she’s the boss, so there […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I dunno. Maybe I’m being unfair, but when I watch a Woody Allen movie these days, I’m all too aware that his characters all sound like him, to one degree or another. Maybe that was always true, but since Allen started making movies about people […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Satire
Director: Chiu Chung-Hing
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For the first twenty minutes, I had no idea what kind of movie A Heroic Fight was, other than a comedy. It begins with a dead-on parody of triad flicks. I particularly enjoyed the way the filmmakers tweaked the convention of sliding something […]
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Country: France
Genre: Suspense/ Drama
Director: Marina de Van
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Don’t Look Back AKA Ne te retourne pas doesn’t really add up to much after it’s over, but it doesn’t feel that way while it’s happening.
Really, the movie is a star vehicle: a trio consisting of Sophie Marceau, Monica Bellucci, and special effects/makeup.
Let me explain. […]