≡ Category: Action, Drama, Essential, United Kingdom | ≅ Leave a Comment
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/ 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: 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: Britain
Genre: Action
Director: Nick Love
Year: 2007
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Outlaw is a perfectly good vigilante flick, a reaction to rising hooliganism and crooked cops in England. Or it would be, if the filmmakers hadn’t decided to lens the flick using what looks like consumer grade video equipment (more on that later).
A bunch of disillusioned men […]
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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Action/Drama/Comedy
Director: Martin McDonagh
Year: 2008
Rating:
COOL MOVIES CRITICS DISRESPECT
Let’s see: funny hitmen - check; conversations about topics that have nothing to do with killing people - check; graphic violence - check; lots of cursing - check; must be a Tarantino knockoff. That’s the lazy and reductive reasoning many critics used to arrive at […]
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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Action/Drama/Suspense
Director: Roger Donaldson
Year: 2008
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The title of this movie, together with the fact that it stars Jason Statham, gives the impression that it’s going to be the most generic caper movie possible.
Thankfully, that’s not the case.
First of all, the events of the film are […]
