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Country: Germany
Genre: Drama/ Action
Director: Uli Edel
Year: 2008
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
