≡ Category: Action, Drama, Japan, Recommended, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay/ Satire
Director: Shigehiro Ozawa
Year: 1969
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Killer’s Mission has a bit of a legendary reputation, in part because it’s difficult to get hold of a copy, and partly because it’s supposed to be one of the more violent 60s chambara flicks.
The premise certainly holds promise. In the late Edo […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Essential, Hong Kong, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/ Comedy/ Action
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Year: 1978
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Normally, I’m not a big fan of 70s Shaw Brothers flicks, but Heroes of the East won me over in the first ten minutes or so.
As Heroes Of The East begins, Ho To (Gordon Liu) is digging in his heels, refusing to […]
≡ Category: Drama, Essential, Korea, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Romance
Director: Cheol-su Park
Year: 2005
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I’ve been watching Asian cinema for about 30 years now, and during that time I’ve seen countless explicit sex scenes, but watching Green Chair, I actually found myself getting turned on. That’s a first.
Mun-hee (Jung Suh) has been sentenced to a short prison term, followed […]
≡ Category: Drama, Essential, Mainstream, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Mainstream
Director: John Schlesinger
Year: 1990
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Pacific Heights plays like a yuppie horror story.
Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) decide to invest in a Victorian in Pacific Heights. They’re overextended financially, but they figure they’ll make up the difference by renting out the two […]
≡ Category: Horror, Recommended, Satire, Science Fiction, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Satire/ Science Fiction
Director: Stuart Gordon
Year: 1986
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The key to enjoying From Beyond is to keep in mind that the film is intended as the film analog to the old EC Horror Comics, seasoned with some nudity and mild S&M.
The source material is a H. P. Lovecraft story, but […]
≡ Category: Exploitation, Giallo, Poliziotteschi, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Giallo/ Exploitation
Director: Paolo Cavara
Year: 1976
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Someone is killing off the members of the Flora and Fauna Club, a group of rich people who play decadent erotic games and keep wild animals in cages on the estate of the club’s host (beautifully played by John Steiner). The killer leaves an illustration […]
≡ Category: Action, Category III, Comedy, Exploitation, Hong Kong, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Category III/ Exploitation/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Ivan Lai
Year: 1993
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
There is no possible vantage point from which you can consider Daughter of Darkness a good film. On the other hand, it’s jaw droppingly tasteless, an exercise in cinematic schizophrenia, which for certain connoisseurs of Category III madness, will be motive enough […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1992
Rating:
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Casino Tycoon is a rather interesting film in some ways. It has reasonably compelling characters and a wealth of incident, and yet it doesn’t possess the headlong drive typical of the best Golden Age of Hong Kong flicks. It’s passably entertaining, but in the […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Mainstream, Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Mainstream
Director: Daniel Petrie
Year: 1981
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I remember back when Fort Apache The Bronx came out, there was a lot of hype that it was going to show how things were really were in the Bronx, a warts and all portrait. The producers even went so far as to […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Poliziotteschi, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Year: 1975
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Henry Silva has one of the least reassuring smiles in cinema, like a grinning shark, even when he’s supposed to be a happy family man, as in Manhunt In The City.
When the eight year old daughter of David Vannucchi (Henry Silva) is killed […]