≡ Category: Drama, Italy, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action
Director: Romolo Guerrieri
Year: 1974
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Inspector Michele Parrino (movingly played by Enrico Maria Salerno) is sick at heart (literally — he has a bum ticker). Parrino spends his days investigating petty crime and cleaning up sordid messes: a robbery of a jewelry shop that nets the thieves just enough moolah for […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Girls With Guns
Director: Stephen Tung Wai
Year: 1995
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Fox Hunter lacks some of the usual virtues of films from the Golden Age of Hong Kong, but more than makes up for it in other ways.
Scripts in Hong Kong action films from that era were often loose […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Science Fiction/ Art
Directors: Jeff Renfroe/ Marteinn Thorsson
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
One Point 0, like almost every science fiction film of the last 30 years, owes much to Blade Runner. Science continues to advance (nanotechnology), but the infrastructure continues to decay, society is more fragmented than ever, and paranoia reigns supreme.
Someone has […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Girls with Guns, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet/ Girls With Guns
Director: Yiu Tin-Hung
Year: 1995
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Here is yet another Oshima Yukari flick in which the actress is ill-served.
Drugs Fighters is yet another HK film pitting drug dealers against cops. The biggest novelty is that the movie takes place in the People’s Republic of China […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Action
Director: Marino Girolami
Year: 1975
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Roma Violenta is an okay time waster, but not much more than that.
Screenwriter Vincenzo Mannino and director Marino Girolami maintain a quick paced, steady flow of action, but there’s a problem. We’ve seen it all before, many times over. Dirty Harry clones like Roma Violenta live and […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet
Director: To Pak-Hon
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
There isn’t a whole lot to Come From China. You won’t find any great themes, cultural significance, or moving human drama. But one thing screenwriter James Fung does well is set up a situation that practically guarantees non-stop action and director […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Japan, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Year: 1967
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the title character’s quest to become acknowledged as the best swordsman in Japan.
The movie has beautiful vistas, fluid camerawork, and decent martial arts choreography, but that pretty much exhausts my praise.
The huge problem at the center is […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Ann Hui
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
You’ve got to hand it to Ann Hui. She’s been making films since 1979 and she just keeps improving. Night And Fog is the more assured film I’ve seen her direct yet. The compositions, the camera movements, the cinematography, the music, are all […]
≡ Category: Drama, Italy, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Director: Damiano Damiani
Year: 1971
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
L’istruttoria E Chiusa Dimentchi aka The Case Is Closed: Forget About It has much in common with every other prison expose you’ve ever seen, with one exception: it’s about the Italian prison system. This makes a bigger difference than you might expect.
When people are driven mad […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Drama
Director: Wu Ma
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In 1930s Shanghai, the genteel art form of “chaste” opera is already long passé, so the performances of Pops’ (Wu Ma) all female opera troupe are sparsely attended, and then only by underworld types who don’t really appreciate their artistry. These […]
