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Country: United States
Genre: Art
Director: Ken Russell
Year: 1988
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Salome’s Last Dance is almost but not quite a filmed play.
On Guy Fawkes Day, 1892, playwright Oscar Wilde (Nickolas Grace) is invited to a high class brothel in order to watch a production of his play Salome, which has been banned in England. He watches […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Exploitation
Director: Various
Year: 2005
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
There are plenty of literal minded people who will want to pick on HBO’s television series Rome for deviating from the historical record. Nobles have sex with horse traders in front of servants; events that took years are telescoped into days or weeks; words […]
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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Suspense/ Action
Director: André De Toth
Year: 1969
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Play Dirty is a drily cynical war flick which takes place in the African campaign during World War II.
Col. Masters (Nigel Green) sets the tone: “War is a criminal enterprise. I fight it with criminals.” Masters sends his squad of miscreants 400 miles […]
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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
Rating:
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
Rating:
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
Rating:
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 […]
