≡ Category: Action, Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: James B. Harris
Year: 1988
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The novel that Cop is based on, James Ellroy’s Blood On The Moon, is a surrealistic wallow in depravity, like all of Ellroy’s books. I didn’t believe in the protagonist, Lloyd Hopkins, for a second, but it didn’t matter. Blood On The Moon […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Korea, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Comedy
Director: Han-sol Shin
Year: 2005
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Poor Byung-tae (Hyun-kyoon Lee). He’s one of those kids who seemed to be born with a sign on their back saying “Kick me.” His father, a policeman, keeps transferring Byung-tae from school to school, and each time, he instantly becomes the target of bullies. […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Holland, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Holland
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 2006
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Soldier of Orange must have the oddest tone of any war film I’ve ever seen. It isn’t organized by theme. It doesn’t really have a 1st, 2nd and 3rd act in the conventional sense. There are no particular stakes.
All that director Paul Verhoeven wants to […]
≡ Category: Category III, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Drama
Director: Andrew Lau
Year: 1995
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When I sat down to watch Lover Of The Last Empress, I expected a trashy Category III romp. Instead, I was surprised to find a superbly acted and tightly scripted drama about court intrigue.
We are told in the beginning of the film […]
≡ Category: Essential, Horror, Satire, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Satire/ Horror/ Suspense
Director: Richard Franklin
Year: 1983
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I remember being impressed with Psycho II when it came out back in 1983, but it’s taken me the intervening 27 or so years for me to fully appreciate how brilliant it is. It also underscores for me how critics, like most people, […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Billy Chan
Year: 1988
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Captain Lee (Danny Lee, in his usual role as a cop) is an overworked policeman whose colleagues are dropping like flies in gunfights with out of control thugs. He seldom has time to spend with his wife (Carol Cheng) and son, but he […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Korea, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Min-Ho Cho
Year: 2006
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Les Formidables starts out with a perfectly serviceable premise: ex-gang member Lee Su-hyun (Jeong-myeong Cheon) will have his debts forgiven if he kills a witness to a murder. When he’s thrown in jail, the cops try to pin the murder of a cop on him as […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Essential, Hong Kong, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Jackie Chan
Year: 1983
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I must have gotten out of the wrong side of the bed the day I first saw Project A because I remember not being very impressed. I seem to remember that the print was totally washed out and the subtitles were unintelligible, […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Horror, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Comedy
Director: Bob Clark
Year: 1973
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The first time I saw Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things, back in my misspent youth, it was under perfect circumstances: I was with friends, it was pouring outside, I was stoned out of my mind on hashish, and we started watching the movie about […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Poliziotteschi/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1975
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Back when Kidnap Syndicate was made, there was an epidemic of kidnappings of all kinds in Italy: kidnapping for ransom, as well as political kidnappings of all different political persuasions. Although Kidnap Syndicate is structured as a suspense thriller, the clear impetus […]