≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Argentina
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Marco Bechis
Year: 1999
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I have just seen a possible future of the United States and it should scare the crap out of every American. More on that, later.
In Garage Olimpo, Maria (Antonella Costa) is arrested in her home by the Argentinian military for the grave crime of….wait […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Essential, Romance, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1955
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Most movies date poorly. Go back to the early 70s and try to watch a film like, oh, I dunno, Prime Cut with Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin. It can be tough sledding.
On the other hand, modern audiences can still enjoy Citizen Kane, […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Hong Kong, Horror, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/ Comedy
Director: Danny Go/Wellson Chin
Year: 1995
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
By 1995, the film industry in Hong Kong was verging on collapse. Local audiences had become blase about bullet ballet and flying wuxia flicks, which had been the mainstay of Hong Kong cinema for six or seven years.
Filmmakers reacted by trying to come up […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Clint Eastwood
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It might be counterintuitive, but it turns out that Clint Eastwood is the perfect person to direct a movie about near death experiences, including large scale physical disasters.
Why? Clint tends to go for understatement. In the wrong hands, the supernatural can seem awfully hokey. And, […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy
Director: Miguel Arteta
Year: 2011
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Not too many films are made about Red State folks, and on the rare occasions when Hollywood deigns to examine the lives of denizens of the flyover states, the tendency is to be condescending and exaggerate social tendencies to the point of caricature.
To some extent, […]
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Country: France
Genre: Comedy
Director: Francis Veber
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
You’ve got to hand it to writer/director Francis Veber. He’s a machine.
Over and over again he turns out entertaining mainstream comedies which are simple but not stupid, without resorting to needless vulgarity. His comedies deal with human nature in the broadest possible way.
In Fugitives, Lucas (Gérard […]
≡ Category: Drama, Korea, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Kyung-Soo Im
Year: 2005
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
For a while, it seemed like Bystanders was going to be truly original.
In the beginning of the film, we see a young boy stabbed to death by someone in a raincoat. Elsewhere, a man fondles a woman’s ass in a crowded subway. Ja-young (Eun-Kyung Shin) […]
≡ Category: Art, Comedy, Drama, Essential, Italy, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Michael Radford
Year: 1994
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Fleeing his native Chile to avoid arrest, poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) winds up on a remote Italian island. In the area in which he is staying, Neruda is the only person who isn’t illiterate. The local post office hires Mario Ruoppolo (Massimo […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Ghost, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Ghost/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1980
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Close Encounter of the Spooky Kind’s biggest claim to fame is probably that it was the first Hong Kong flick to combine the supernatural, kung fu, and comedy in one picture. Not to mention that Close Encounter of the Spooky Kind marks […]
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Country: Dominican Republic
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Josh Crook
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Imagine this scenario. A young boy is deprived of his guardian because of a senseless act of violence. His rage at this injustice is coopted by a seemingly benevolent father figure, who teaches the boy to be a killing machine for his own selfish […]