≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Poon Man-Kit
Year: 1993
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I am taking the unusual step of writing about Lord Of East China Sea and Lord Of East China Sea II in the same review because they’re really one five hour movie, cut arbitrarily in two.
This is going to sound funny, but five hours […]
≡ Category: Drama, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Larry Clark
Year: 2002
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Okay, I agree with screenwriter Harmony Korine that the fabric of American life is fraying, but the bottom hasn’t fallen out to the extent he would have us believe.
Most of the events that take place in Ken Park are within the realm of believability. Do I […]
≡ Category: Exploitation, Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Exploitation
Director: Don Edmonds
Year: 1975
Rating:
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Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS is a profoundly unserious movie. Now, for some of you reading this, you’ll be thinking to yourself, “Duh.” But I thought that the comment was worth making because some flicks are intended seriously but are so incompetently executed that […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Ghost, Hong Kong, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Ghost
Director: Jeff Lau
Year: 1987
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The Haunted Cop Shop reminds me of nothing so much as the old Abbott & Costello satires of classic horror flicks, like Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Abbott & Costello Meet The Wolfman. It’s not really supposed to be scary. The Hong Kong version […]
≡ Category: Drama, Korea, Science Fiction, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Science Fiction/ Drama
Director: In-ho Yun
Year: 2008
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It’s an old story. An elderly person tricks a young person into exchanging bodies, usually through some type of magic.
But that’s usually the climax. In The Devil’s Game, it’s only the beginning of the story. Screenwriter Kim Mi-ra’s inspiration is to imagine the horror of […]
≡ Category: Action, Mainstream, Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Mainstream
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Year: 2009
Rating:
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How interesting. It’s only been a few days since I saw 1988’s Edge Of Darkness, an otherwise sterling flick that loses some power because it trades in cliches that were newly minted at the time.
And now we have Brooklyn’s Finest, a picture that […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Essential, Japan, Pinku Eiga, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Drama/ Pinku Eiga
Director: Yoshihiro Ishikawa
Year: 1968
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I have to admit, when I saw that Female Demon Ohyaku was going to be in black and white, my heart sank.
I figured that since Female Demon Ohyaku was a forerunner to the Pinku Eiga (pinky violence) genre, the levels of […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Fung Hak-On
Year: 1988
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s probably unfair to Edge Of Darkness that I’m only getting around to watching it now. Had I seen it when it came out in 1988, it would have blown me out of the back of the theater.
Back then, stories […]
≡ Category: Action, Japan, Recommended, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Year: 1972
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Trail of Blood is the first installment of the Mikogami Trilogy, and it’s so thin, you kind of wonder how they managed to stretch the series for two more films.
When Jokichi of Mikogami (Yoshio Harada), a wandering ronin, meets a similarly damaged woman (Sanae Kitabayashi) […]
≡ Category: Drama, Korea, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Director: Ki-seon Hong
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
When you adapt the true story of a crime, you have a responsibility to the victims and their family to tell the truth, even if you have to alter some details for dramatic purposes. The Case of Itaewon Homicide fails this basic test.
I find out from […]