≡ Category: Action, France, Highly Recommended, Mainstream, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Fred Cavayé
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Point Blank AKA A Bout Portant is a thriller about absolutely nothing. By that I mean that there’s no sociopolitical or psychological subtext whatsoever. What you see is what you get.
That said, Point Blank is almost perfectly realized. Director Fred Cavayé […]
≡ Category: Drama, Essential, Hong Kong, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Romance/ Drama
Director: Sherman Wong
Year: 1993
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Enigma Of Love is that rarest of beasts, an excellent Hong Kong flick that doesn’t rely on action to make it’s point.
When Jackie’s (Jacky Cheung) gigolo bar is busted by tough cop Tammy (Maggie Cheung), he decides to humiliate her […]
≡ Category: Action, Exploitation, Highly Recommended, Japan, Pinku Eiga, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Pinku Eiga/ Swordplay/ Martial Arts
Director: Takashi Tsuboshima
Year: 1974
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Sometimes I can be slow on the uptake. Only now do I realize that some of my very favorite Japanese movies originated from the warped pen of Kazuo Koike. There’s Lady Snowblood, Hanzo The Razor, Lone Wolf & Cub, and […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Alex Cheung
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The opening images of Chatter Street Killer are of modern skyscrapers in Hong Kong: gleaming, cold, impersonal. Then the camera pans down. At street level, the working class is still living in old Hong Kong neighborhoods that feel more like small towns. Everyone knows […]
≡ Category: Essential, Italy, Spaghetti Western | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western
Director: Sergio Sollima
Year: 1966
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
The Big Gundown has the reputation of being one of the very best spaghetti Westerns. It turns out that reputation is well earned.
The story seems simple enough at first. Cuchillo (Tomas Milian) is wanted for raping and murdering an 11 year old girl. Bounty hunter […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy
Director: Yuen Biao
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
A Kid From Tibet starts off with several advantages. First, there aren’t many movies made in which one of the main protagonists is a Tibetan monk. That’s pretty novel to start with. And director/star Yuen Biao managed to get amazing access to Lhasa, the […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Japan, Martial Arts, Recommended, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay/ Martial Arts
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Year: 1964
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Considering how simple the central conflict of Zatoichi And The Chest Of Gold is, the film can be awfully confusing.
When Zatoichi (Shintarô Katsu) happens upon a celebration, it turns out that the villagers are happy because they have managed to scrape together […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy
Director: Kenny Bee
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
One year before Danny Devito’s Throw Momma From The Train, screenwriter Alex Law came up with this comic version of the classic Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller Strangers On A Train.
In this version of the story, Football Fa (Chow Yun-Fat) and Roberto (Kenny Bee) are friends […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Japan, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Yukio Noda
Year: 1970
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Okay, you’ve got machine gun slaughters, drug wars, boat chases, death by spear gun, explosions galore, car chases, and much more. And yet, Yakuza Deka: The Assassin is pretty darned boring.
How can that be?
Let’s start with the action elements. None of them is […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Highly Recommended, Holland | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Holland
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 1971
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s amazing to think that with his first film, Paul Verhoeven’s essential characteristics as a filmmaker (and those of his main screenwriter over the years, Gerard Soeteman) were already in evidence.
Business Is Business is punchy. The tone is frank (some would say vulgar). Verhoeven and […]