≡ Category: Action, Exploitation, Japan, Pinku Eiga, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Pinku Eiga/ Action/ Exploitation
Director: Yukio Noda
Year: 1974
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs has some big problems. Miki Sugimoto, who plays the title character, can’t act. Oh, she’s absolutely knock dead gorgeous, but her expression isn’t simply enigmatic, it’s blank. The direction, by Yukio Noda, is very crude. There are a ton […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended, Satire | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Satire
Director: Tommy Leung
Year: 1991
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
You Bet Your Life is emphatically not for Hong Kong newbies. In order to enjoy this flick, you have to have an appreciation of many of the cultural signposts of life in Hong Kong circa 1991. For example, gambling mania was so common and […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Japan, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Comedy
Director: Kiyoshi Saeki
Year: 1968
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Here we have yet another delightful Japanese series from the late 60s early 70s. It stars the great Tomisaburo Wakayama, most famous for the Lone Wolf and Cub series, and to a lesser extent Hanzo the Razor. Wakayama’s character in The Wicked Priest series, Mikuni Shinkai, […]
≡ Category: China, Martial Arts, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: China
Genre: Martial Arts
Director: Sun Sha
Year: 1983
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Let’s face it. The Undaunted Wudang is not a very good movie.
The editing is clumsy and the camera moves uncoordinated. Director Sun Sha has only the faintest grasp of narrative filmmaking. It’s a good thing that the plot of his movie is simplicity itself.
The evil […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Hong Kong, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Benny Chan
Year: 1996
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It seems like other countries never tire of trying to duplicate American action flicks. Most of the time, it’s an exercise in futility. The things we’re best at, like large scale destruction, special effects laden sequences, and budget busting action set pieces, […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Alan Parker
Year: 1988
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I have mixed feelings about Mississippi Burning.
On the one hand, it’s a blatant and cynical falsification of history. According to Mississippi Burning, one of the major turning points of the Civil Rights Era hinged on the actions of two middle-aged white men […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Chiu Liu-Kong
Year: 1996
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Quick – what’s the worst sequel to a Hong Kong masterpiece? Well, I’d have to say the all time loser still remains Drunken Master III, but Iron Monkey 2 rates a close second.
How could this be? Yuen Wo-Ping directed the first Iron […]
≡ Category: Action, Highly Recommended, Romance, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Romance
Director: Burt Reynolds
Year: 1981
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
What is a real man?
According to Sharky’s Machine, it’s someone who has Cro-Magnon ideas about women, is protective of them, is willing to get his fists bloody (and sometimes enjoys it), drinks beer instead of wine, doesn’t scream when he’s tortured, and is […]
≡ Category: Essential, Fantasy, Romance, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Romance/ Fantasy/ Suspense
Director: George Nolfi
Year: 2011
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
It’s difficult to come up with more than a handful of movies that explore the relationship between (the Christian) God’s omnipotence, his plan, free will, and the problem of evil. There’s Bruce Almighty, but it mostly functions as an Christian apologia, a way […]
≡ Category: Action, Exploitation, Hong Kong, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Exploitation/ Suspense
Director: Tsui Hark
Year: 1980
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If anyone had been paying attention at the time, it would have been impossible to miss the advent of a new major filmmaking talent in Tsui Hark, the director of 1980’s Dangerous Encounter - 1st Kind.
With little more than aggressive camera work (Hark […]