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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Horror
Director: Robin Hardy
Year: 1973
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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, […]
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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Horror/ Satire
Director: Christopher Smith
Year: 2006
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The first laugh in Severance comes within seconds. The first thing we hear is elevator music. Then we get a visual: two terrified twenty-something bimbos running through the forest as if they’re being chased by a maniac, which they are.
I don’t think […]
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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Suspense/ Drama
Director: Oliver Blackburn
Year: 2008
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It serves me right. I couldn’t resist checking out a flick which trades on the urban legend, Donkey Punch. For those of you who don’t know, a Donkey Punch occurs when you’re giving it to a girl up the ass and, right when you’re […]
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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: David Yates
Year: 2003
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
First of all, this isn’t the recent American movie with Ben Affleck and Russell Crowe. It’s the original BBC miniseries. I actually haven’t seen the American version, but often times, the British originals are better. A great example of this is Traffik. The Michael […]
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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Drama
Director: Neil Jordan
Year: 1986
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Within a minute of the opening credits of Mona Lisa, you know you’re watching a classic. The visuals, editing, and music form a seamless whole and you’re moved, without quite knowing why. With one single image, writer/director Neil Jordan lets you understand that the fireplug-shaped […]
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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Drama/ Comedy
Director: Mike Leigh
Year: 2008
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
You could be forgiven for thinking that Poppy (Sally Hawkins), the hero of writer/director Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, is a blithering idiot. She goes around with a goofy smile on her face, giving a cheery hello to everyone, chats up glum strangers even when it […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: David Mackenzie
Year: 2007
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
You know, in some ways, I’m a pretty straightforward guy. If a story presents itself as taking place more or less in the real world, I kind of insist on some sense of reality. The filmmakers can’t present a more or less realistic misc en […]
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Country: Britain
Genre: Satire/Mainstream
Director: Terry Jones
Year: 1979
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The first thing you notice about Monty Python’s Life Of Brian is that the score mercilessly mocks Biblical epics. I was simultaneously cringing in anticipation and looking forward to Christianity being flayed, drawn and quartered and impaled. No such luck.
Life of Brian is equal opportunity satire. […]
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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: Edgar Wright
Year: 2007
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It may seem like Hot Fuzz is shooting fish in a barrel by making fun of action movies, but that doesn’t make it any less fun.
Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg), a hotshot London cop, has been transferred to the sleepy hamlet of Sandford. His new […]
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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Drama
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Last King of Scotland is another one of those movies about African people in which the major protagonist is once again, a white person.
I guess the folks at the major studios figure that without a white character for middle America to identify with, no […]
