≡ Category: Action, Drama, Korea, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: John H. Lee
Year: 2010
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
With 71 Into The Fire, writers Man-Hee Lee and Dong-Woo Kim have an incredible story to tell. In 1950, North Korea attacked South Korea and beat back the South Koreans as far as the Nakdong River. That’s where South Korea made it’s last stand.
Pohang, which […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Year: 1963
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Within the first five seconds of Zatoichi On The Road, you know you’re in good hands. Director Kimiyoshi Yasuda starts the picture in darkness. You hear a sound, which you quickly identify as the shaking of gambling dice. Then a voice: “Game.” The first image […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: Ann Hui
Year: 1991
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s odd that Zodiac Killers amounts to so little when there is so much good work here.
Let’s start with the fresh subject matter. Zodiac Killers is about folks from the Chinese diaspora (Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan) who come to Japan to study […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, France, Not Worth Your Time, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Romance/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Year: 2000
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
My wife is a big fan of Sophie Marceau, which explains why La Fidelite is being reviewed on this web site (I review every movie I watch).
You see, it’s a wacky French dramatic comedy, far removed from the genre flicks I usually review.
Clélia (Sophie […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Hong-jin Na
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For a while, I had the mistaken notion that Korea was overrun with genius writers and directors. Films like A Frozen Flower and The Chaser, not to mention directors like Chanwook Park and Kim Ki-Duk, helped to encourage that rose-colored viewpoint.
But after seeing […]
≡ Category: Action, Girls with Guns, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Girls With Guns
Director: Wong Wai-Yip
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When it comes right down to it, The Way Of The Lady Boxers aka Madam The Great is a pretty lousy movie. The plotting is lame, many of the actors are pure amateur hour, and the drama is embarrassing. What […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Terence Young
Year: 1972
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s not really fair to compare The Valachi Papers with The Godfather. Very few pictures are as good, let alone gangster flicks. Yet you can’t help yourself.
The Godfather was fiction, but it played like the gospel truth. The Valachi Papers is based on the life […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When I first started watching The Unjust, I thought it would be about the manhunt for a serial kidnaper/rapist/murderer of children. Ha!
The central joke of The Unjust is that Prosecutor Joo-yang (Seung-beom Ryu) and cop Captain Choi (Jeong-min Hwang) could give a damn about […]
≡ Category: Action, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Romance, Taiwan | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Romance/ Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1985
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Seven Foxes is a mess, although it didn’t have to be.
It concerns three couples and their romantic travails. In the first story strand, Dong Tin wants to be a dancer (insert a few sequences derivative of Flashdance) and leaves […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Drama
Director: Noribumi Suzuki
Year: 1968
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The second installment of the Red Peony Gambler series is not quite as surefooted as the first, but it recovers nicely for a powerful finish.
In the first installment of Red Peony Gambler, plot, character, and theme were almost flawlessly integrated, but that isn’t true […]