≡ Category: Drama, Korea, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Director: Hae-sung Song
Year: 2001
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Failan (Cecilia Cheung), a beautiful young Chinese woman, immigrates to Korea after her mother dies, hoping to look up her aunt. Unfortunately, her aunt has already emigrated to Canada, leaving Failan stranded with no connections in a strange land in which she barely speaks the language. […]
≡ Category: Category III, Comedy, Ghost, Hong Kong, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Ghost/ Comedy
Director: Lam Nai-Choi
Year: 1990
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Erotic Ghost Story takes the plot of Witches of Eastwick and transposes it to ancient China.
Fa-Fa (Amy Yip), Pai So-So (Man Siu), and Fei-Fei (Kudo Hitomi) are three sister fox spirits who, if they can manage to concentrate on their spiritual studies […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Category III, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Category III/ Martial Arts
Director: Dennis Law
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Coming from director Dennis Law, the director of Bad Blood, Fatal Move has to count as a major disappointment.
The problems begin with the script, also by Dennis Law. When triad kingpin Lung (Sammo Hung) wants to take a step back […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Hong Kong, Horror, Martial Arts, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Dennis Yu
Year: 1987
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
In the interests of full disclosure, let me just say that I am not part of the natural audience for this picture. I’m not big on ghost/vampire/demon pictures unless the action choreography is awesome and the humor is laugh out loud funny. That’s […]
≡ Category: China, Highly Recommended, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts
Director: Zhang Siu-Wai
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Deadend of Besiegers is an unexpected delight.
Disgraced Japanese martial artist Wuwechimatao (a charismatic Yu Rong-Guang) travels to China to learn Dog-Fist style, but unfortunately, he has mistakenly boarded a pirate ship instead of a merchant vessel. When the pirates attack a coastal […]
≡ Category: Action, Essential, Horror, Satire, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Satire/ Horror
Director: Robert Rodriguez/ Quentin Tarantino/ Rob Zombie/ Eli Roth/ Edgar Wright
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Normally, when I review a movie, I’m focused on stuff like cinematography, plotting, characterization, acting, martial arts choreography and so on, and to a certain extent, that’s true of Grindhouse, too. But all of […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended, Romance, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Romance
Director: Wong Jing/ Jimmy Heung
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Sometimes, when you seem to be winning, you’re actually losing.
This is certainly the case when Crab (Andy Lau) and Sam (Alan Tam), gamblers themselves, foil the scam of Japanese gamblers at a casino in Lake Tahoe as a favor […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy /Romance
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1996
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I might catch some flack for recommending Don’t Give A Damn AKA Burger Cop. It certainly has a poor reputation in the HK flicks fan community. Moreover, I understand why.
For the first solid hour, Don’t Give A Damn is about exactly nothing, although […]
≡ Category: Denmark, Drama, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Denmark
Genre: Drama
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Year: 2004
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Here in the United States, we don’t get a whole lot of political thrillers, even if they’re tarted up with explosions, pseudo martial arts violence, and T&A (think Salt). And a political thriller which consists of nothing but strategy and dialog? Forget about it.
I am so […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, Essential, Italy | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I can count on my fingers the number of films that make me sob uncontrollably — that’s a good thing, by the way. A great film can engender empathy to an extraordinary degree, and Cinema Paradiso fits the bill.
Toto (played by three of the most […]