≡ Category: Ghost, Hong Kong, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Ghost
Director: David Lai
Year: 1983
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Poor Siu Yuk Lung (Siu Yuk Lung) and Lau Siu Ming (Lau Siu Ming) are having a rough evening. After a night out on the town, Lau Siu Ming gets drunk as usual and manages to get his wallet pickpocketed. Then he’s almost run down […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Girls with Guns, Hong Kong, Satire, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Girls With Guns/ Comedy/ Satire/ Action
Director: Jeff Lau
Year: 1988
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The main subject of Operation Pink Squad is the absolute terror than Hong Kong men had in the 80s of career women. It was the humiliation of women taking their jobs, the diminution of their sense of manhood, an assault on […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Satire, Suspense, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Suspense/ Horror/ Satire
Director: Various
Year: 2007
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Here we have the first season of Dexter I can’t fully recommend. Huge fans of the series will probably still want to check it out, but it’s just not very good.
The fault isn’t the actors. Michael C. Hall negotiates the contours of the […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, Korea | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Director: Soo-young Park
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
One day, in a rural area, a child goes off to play and never comes back. A dragnet ensues but the child is not found. There have been no ransom demands.
However, convicted child molester Se-jin (Jeong-jin Lee) has recently moved into the area with his […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Fantasy, Ghost, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Ghost/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Ricky Lau
Year: 1985
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Just because a movie was extremely popular with the Hong Kong audience doesn’t mean it’s any good. Think of all the early Stephen Chow nonsense comedies or Jackie Chan’s Lucky Star flicks. On the other side of the ocean, Porky’s […]
≡ Category: Action, Horror, Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Suspense/ Action
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Most remakes are an exercise in futility. Usually, the originals were just fine to begin with. Most of the time, the filmmakers have no real reason to make the film. Nine times out of ten, it’s a matter of simple economics. There’s an […]
≡ Category: Category III, Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Category III
Director: Go Sin-Ming
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Kidnap of Wong Chak Fai gets straight to business, dropping us into the middle of the kidnapping of the title character, played by Paul Chun. Officer Ching (Kent Cheng, fabulous as usual) has followed the ransom money from the drop to […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Exploitation, Japan, Martial Arts, Pinku Eiga, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy/ Exploitation/ Pinku Eiga
Director: Teruo Ishii
Year: 1974
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Considering the fearsome reputations of star Sonny Chiba and writer/director Teruo Ishii, I expected The Executioner to be a grisly action picture with some added sleaze.
It is that to some degree, but most of all, The Executioner is a comedy.
The […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Chu Yen-Ping
Year: 1997
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For a while there, I thought that Jail In Burning Island aka The Jailbreakers was going to be a superior prison flick, maybe not at the caliber of Prison On Fire, Cool Hand Luke or The Shawshank Redemption, but what […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Korea, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Action
Director: Jeon Man-bae/ Lee Se-yeong-II
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Detective Han Jong-sik (Kim Seung-woo) is a true scumbag. He’s the sort of cop who would rather railroad an innocent man than do the hard work of investigating a crime, and sure he’s corrupt, but we’re used to that from Korean flicks. […]