≡ Category: Comedy, Denmark, Drama, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Denmark
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Year: 2005
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For everyone who is tired of the same recycled plots and characters, have I got a movie for you.
In Adam’s Apples, neo-Nazi Adam Pedersen (Ulrich Thomsen) is sentenced to community service at a country church presided over by Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen), a priest who views […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Essential, Horror, Suspense, United Kingdom | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Horror
Director: Robin Hardy
Year: 1973
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
The Wicker Man is endlessly fascinating. Screenwriter Anthony Shaffer uses a mystery structure as an excuse to imagine what a modern version of a pagan society might look like, contrasting it with the character of Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward, in a pathetic, amusing, […]
≡ Category: Artist Profiles, Comedy, Drama, France, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Alain Corneau
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
As surely everyone but the dullest bulb knows by now, the 1% of the richest people in the world have bought the world’s governments and use them to further solidify their power and wealth.
Part of the strategy of the wealthy is to influence education so […]
≡ Category: Action, France, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Jacques Deray
Year: 1980
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I must have Occupy Wall Street on the brain. I am once again reminded that the phenomenon of rich and powerful people protecting their own perceived interests at the expense of everyone else is as old as civilization itself.
Three Men To Destroy, based on a novel […]
≡ Category: Drama, Italy, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1969
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I Ragazzi Del Massacro AKA Naked Violence certainly starts out with a bang, no pun intended. Before the credits are even over, a classroom full of teenagers have raped and killed their teacher.
At first, I thought writer/director Fernando Di Leo was making a hamhanded comment […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Germany, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Germany
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: Uli Edel
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I have mixed feelings about The Baader Meinhof Complex. On the one hand, the physical production is impeccable. The sense of place and time is palpable. The action sequences are crisp, exciting, yet realistic. The violence isn’t exaggerated, but isn’t softpedaled either. The acting is […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Poliziotteschi
Director: Romolo Guerrieri
Year: 1976
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Young, Violent, Dangerous puts me in a bit of a quandary. It’s tightly and logically written by Fernando Di Leo, well acted, and professionally directed by Romolo Guerrieri. And yet, I have a hard time buying the central concept.
Lea (Eleonora Giorgi) shows up at […]
≡ Category: Drama, France, Horror, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Horror/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Vinyan has two major themes.
One is the horror of being in an entirely alien culture, where you don’t understand the language, much less the cultural cues that would help you tell is someone is being sincere, helpful or murderous.
The […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Denmark, Drama, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Denmark
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Comedy
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Year: 1996
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Pusher is a no budget effort from Denmark, up-and-comer Nicolas Winding Refn’s first film. Refn creates a minor miracle with what he had to work with: a tiny budget and one handheld camera. Yes, he also had good actors, like Kim Bodnia (Frank, the […]
≡ Category: Recommended, Spain, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Spain
Genre: Suspense
Director: Mateo Gil
Year: 1999
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Nobody Knows Anybody AKA Nadie Conoce A Nadie is a reasonably competent suspense thriller, but the most entertaining aspect of the movie, at least for me, is how the Spaniards express themselves in the scenes of everyday life that open the film.
Simón Cárdenas (Eduardo Noriega) is […]
