≡ Category: Drama, Exploitation, Giallo, Italy, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Giallo/ Suspense/ Drama/ Exploitation
Director: Renato Polselli
Year: 1972
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Delirium AKA Delirio Caldo is staggeringly incompetent. It barely rises to the level of a bad student film.
The minute we meet Herbert (Mickey Hargitay), we know he’s a psycho perv. He’s burning a hole through the dress of a young girl in a […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, Mainstream, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Mainstream
Director: Harold Becker
Year: 1989
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
As often as not, when I watch an old film that really impressed me, it hasn’t aged well, and I end up being disappointed. The opposite case, when a film grows in stature over time, is more rare.
Sea Of Love has held up […]
≡ Category: Action, Category III, Drama, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Martial Arts/ Romance/ Action
Director: Alan Chan
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I’d be hard pressed to describe Beyond The Copline as a “good” movie, but in it’s inimitably wacky way, it delivers a fair amount of entertainment value in a tawdry package.
The script by Wong Wai-Keung and Dick Lee starts out […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Highly Recommended, Korea, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Shin-yeon Won
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Music professor Young-sun (Byeong-jun Lee) is driving former student In-jeong (Ye-ryeon Cha) home from an audition. The power of his position and his feelings of privilege and entitlement embolden him to attempt a seduction. In-jeong, having grown up in a loving upper middle […]
≡ Category: Action, Mainstream, Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Mainstream
Director: John Irvin
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Considering that Raw Deal is an 80s era Arnold Schwartzenegger action extravaganza, it’s not as silly as it might be.
That’s due to a surfeit of talent both in front of and behind the cameras. The script, by Gary DeVore and Norman Wexler, is reasonably […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Japan, Recommended, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Drama
Director: Kazuo Mori
Year: 1962
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
One of the things I really enjoy about the Zatoichi series, and actually Japanese Chambara flicks in general, is how reluctant their creators are to judge those who are considered society’s garbage, even in today’s so-called enlightened cultures: folks like the poor, prostitutes, beggars, […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Drama
Director: Kosaku Yamashita
Year: 1968
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When her father, a Yakuza clan leader, is mugged and killed, Red Peony (Junko Fuji) goes out on the road in search of his murderer, earning her living by gambling as she goes. Along the way, she meets Shogo Hanaoka (Ken Takakura), who […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Recommended, Suspense, Thailand | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Thailand
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Year: 1999
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
6ixtynin9 catches you by surprise. When Tum (Lalita Panyopas) gets downsized from a financial services firm, you expect a gently comedic drama about spiritual values. But for most of the running time of the picture, writer/director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang has something more scabrous in mind.
While Tum […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Romance, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy / Martial Arts/ Romance/ Drama
Director: Yu Mang-Sang
Year: 1992
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I really don’t know how good Zen of Sword is. I know, that sounds like a cop out, but hear me out. It can be really hard to get decent copies of these old Hong Kong flicks because the producers often […]
≡ Category: Action, Exploitation, Japan, Pinku Eiga, Recommended, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Exploitation/ Swordplay/ Pinku Eiga
Director: Teruo Ishii
Year: 1969
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
“A-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i!”
For a while, it seems like Yakuza’s Law is going to be a balls-out exploitation classic. Before the credits are even finished, one guy has been broiled alive, another tortured with a drill, yet another branded in the face, and so on […]