≡ Category: Drama, Not Worth Your Time, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Oren Moverman
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Officer Dave Brown (Woody Harrelson) is a needy, selfish, rageaholic, sociopathic, self-righteous prick. That would be okay, but he isn’t very interesting either. That’s a problem because Rampart isn’t an action film with a riveting story, like Training Day. It’s a character study.
Woody Harrelson plays […]
≡ Category: Drama, Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Jason Reitman
Year: 2009
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Up In The Air plays like a dare. Can Jason Reitman get an audience to spend 90 minutes with utterly loathsome characters and feel grateful for the privilege?
Exhibit A: Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), whose job is to fly around the country firing people. Ryan loves […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Martial Arts, Not Worth Your Time, Romance, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Romance/ Martial Arts
Director: Various
Year: 2012
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
My wife prefers television to movies, so I keep a lookout for anything that she might enjoy that won’t drive me completely nuts. Generally, she likes action, comedy, and anything that won’t make her think too hard or shake her emotional equilibrium. […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Essential, Exploitation, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Exploitation
Director: Various
Year: 2006
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
For me, the two seasons of Rome were a joy. I would have been happy if the show had gone on for another ten seasons.
The costumes, sets and cinematography are sublime. There’s plenty of good acting, especially from Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, Ian McNeice, […]
≡ Category: Action, Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Action
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Year: 2012
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Contraband has one of the most woeful first acts imaginable, a fairly good 2nd act, and a so-so 3rd act.
Half of the deficiencies of Contraband are due to lack of screenwriting craft and the other half are due to the filmmakers being unclear […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Alexander Payne
Year: 2011
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Descendants is an almost unbearably sad movie, despite a happy ending of sorts.
In the voiceover that opens the film, the writers give Matt King (George Clooney) a speech about how he can’t believe his Mainland friends think that life in Hawaii is paradise. […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Joe Carnahan
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The Grey is a wilderness adventure about a bunch of oil workers dodging wolves and otherwise trying to survive after they are stranded by a plane crash.
The filmmakers had six elements to work with: the plane crash; wolf attacks; overcoming obstacles such as […]
≡ Category: Exploitation, Horror, Satire, Science Fiction, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Satire/ Exploitation/ Horror/ Science Fiction
Director: Frank Henenlotter
Year: 1990
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz), a budding mad scientist, has been kicked out of several medical schools. His day job is at a power plant in New Jersey, from which he smuggles parts for his lab in the garage. He’s engaged to Elizabeth […]
≡ Category: Essential, Satire, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Satire
Director: Sidney Lumet
Year: 1976
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Network is widely celebrated as a prescient satire on network television and where popular culture was going at the time. It’s safe to say that screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky was right on target, anticipating reality TV and trashy talk shows, for example.
But Chayefsky’s biggest coup […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Recommended, Satire, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Satire/ Drama/ Action
Director: Tony Bill
Year: 1994
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Long time readers of this site will know that I’m a big fan of James Woods. I happened to come across Next Door, a Showtime movie about feuding next door neighbors starring James Woods, and I thought I’d give it a try.
Now, to […]
