≡ 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
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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. […]
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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, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Action
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Year: 2012
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Sam Mendes
Year: 2012
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Apparently, the producers of the Bond films, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, have learned their lesson from the deplorable flop Quantum of Solace. It’s not that the story is any better than last time. Indeed, it’s just a gussied up tale of a disgruntled […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Scott Mann
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I don’t expect a lot of a picture like The Tournament. I assume the choreography will be sloppy and the writing lunkheaded. The best one can normally hope for from a flick like this is a few decent kill moments.
But The Tournament surprises, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Action/ Suspense
Director: George Gallo
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Middle Men is a slick, shallow movie about a slick shallow business, the internet pornography biz. Apparently, two numbnuts, Wayne Beering (Giovanni Ribisi) and Buck Dolby (Gabriel Macht) came up with the idea of a system that would allow folks to use their […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Western/ Swordplay
Director: Terence Young
Year: 1971
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Red Sun turns out to be surprisingly entertaining for an obscure early 70s western. It doesn’t seem pokey by modern standards, like many movies of its era, the violence has a suitably nasty edge, and the relationship between the two main […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Action/ Fantasy/ Satire
Director: Zack Snyder
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
In the alternate universe of Watchmen, in 1985 Nixon is still president. With no break from Nixonian paranoia and belligerence, the Cold War with the Russians, instead of winding down, has intensified. The Doomsday clock is at two minute till midnight. The only […]
