May
8
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 […]
Mar
19
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 […]
Aug
9
Country: Germany
Genre: Drama
Director: Roland Suso Richter
Year: 2011
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
True stories have advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, things happen in real life that are so incredible, you wouldn’t have the nerve to put them in a fictional story. Another advantage is that real life isn’t predictable. On the other hand, real life often […]
Aug
7
Country: Germany
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Til Schweiger
Year: 2011
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Yes, Kokowääh starts out with a standard Hollywood setup, but for a while, it seems like it’s going to be better than that.
Henry (Til Schweiger) is a confirmed bachelor and horndog, sleeping with as many women as he can manage. Then one day, his ex-girlfriend […]
May
7
Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: Michael Armstrong/ Adrian Hoven
Year: 1970
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Given the modern Eurotrash love theme that dominates the soundtrack (written by Michael Holm) of Mark Of The Devil, it’s hard to believe the filmmakers intended the film as anything more than the most gauche and offensive exploitation. That makes it all the more […]
Jan
15
Country: Germany
Genre: Drama
Director: Fatih Akin
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
How interesting. Just yesterday, I reviewed Powder Blue, a movie in which melodramatic characters kept running into each other in Los Angeles in absurdly coincidental ways, which was obviously modeled on the wildly overpraised Oscar winner, Crash.
And here we have The Edge of Heaven, a […]
Jun
20
Country: Germany
Genre: Drama
Director: Götz Spielmann
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Let’s start by admitting that Revanche is not trash cinema.
Oh, I know, it’s about a ex-con Alex (Johannes Krisch) who works in a bordello doing errands. He’s in love with one of the prostitutes, Tamara (Irina Potapenko), but doesn’t have the money to pay off […]