≡ Category: Canada, Drama, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Canada
Genre: Drama
Director: Larysa Kondracki
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Ostensibly, The Whistleblower is a true story about human trafficking that takes place in Bosnia. And it is. But it also a cautionary tale about the logical end point of a culture that celebrates the cult of the individual, in which a person assumes no responsibility […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Alex Turner
Year: 2004
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
You can’t accuse Dead Birds of being unoriginal.
How many horror movies about Confederate bank robbers holed up in a haunted antebellum mansion can you recall?
It’s a good premise. There’s the potential for action (pursuing lawmen, internecine squabbles over the gold) and the […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Highly Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Phil Karlson
Year: 1973
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s hard to tell sometimes which films will last and which won’t. I would have never predicted that Walking Tall would still have the power to move people today, 40 years later, but it does. Why? A number of reasons, not least of […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Walter Hill
Year: 1975
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
During the first half of Hard Times, I honestly thought I was watching a classic.
The script by Walter Hill, Bryan Gindoff, and Bruce Henstell is taut and terse, the direction and pacing by Hill are no nonsense, the fight choreography convincing, and the […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Satire, Suspense, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Suspense/ Horror/ Satire
Director: Various
Year: 2007
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Here we have the first season of Dexter I can’t fully recommend. Huge fans of the series will probably still want to check it out, but it’s just not very good.
The fault isn’t the actors. Michael C. Hall negotiates the contours of the […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Suspense/ Action
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Most remakes are an exercise in futility. Usually, the originals were just fine to begin with. Most of the time, the filmmakers have no real reason to make the film. Nine times out of ten, it’s a matter of simple economics. There’s an […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Doug Liman
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Anyone with a brain and a pulse knows by now that folks in the Bush administration committed treason by outing CIA agent Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) in retaliation for a New York Times editorial by her husband, ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn), which refuted […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Horror/ Action/ Comedy
Director: David R. Ellis
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I suppose I should say a few words about the plot of The Final Destination, although it’s the same as every other Final Destination flick. Nick O’Bannon (Bobby Campo) has a premonition about a large scale disaster, freaks out and pulls away […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1955
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Most movies date poorly. Go back to the early 70s and try to watch a film like, oh, I dunno, Prime Cut with Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin. It can be tough sledding.
On the other hand, modern audiences can still enjoy Citizen Kane, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Clint Eastwood
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It might be counterintuitive, but it turns out that Clint Eastwood is the perfect person to direct a movie about near death experiences, including large scale physical disasters.
Why? Clint tends to go for understatement. In the wrong hands, the supernatural can seem awfully hokey. And, […]
