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Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Alex Turner
Year: 2004
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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 […]
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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 […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Horror, Suspense, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
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 […]
≡ Category: Action, Science Fiction, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Science Fiction/ Action
Director: Neil Burger
Year: 2011
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Limitless starts out with a fairly irresistible premise. You know the old saw that we only use 20% of our brains? Well, what if you could take a pill that would allow you to utilize 100%?
Now, this pill doesn’t turn you […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Exploitation, Highly Recommended, Satire, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Satire/ Exploitation
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
One of my favorite moments in the fanboy extravaganza Grindhouse was the faux trailer for Machete. When I found out that Robert Rodriguez was actually going to make a feature based on the trailer, I was stoked.
But like a fool, I allowed […]
≡ Category: Action, Mainstream, Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Mainstream
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
How interesting. It’s only been a few days since I saw 1988’s Edge Of Darkness, an otherwise sterling flick that loses some power because it trades in cliches that were newly minted at the time.
And now we have Brooklyn’s Finest, a picture that […]
≡ Category: Action, United States, Western, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Western
Director: Vic Morrow
Year: 1970
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
One of the problems with watching almost any American movie after a Zatoichi flick is that they seem awfully shallow. For example, the campy theme song of A Man Called Sledge, which is used three times during the film, drones on and on about how […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay/ Exploitation
Director: Steve Carver
Year: 1975
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I’m afraid I’ve become spoiled by Japanese chambara flicks and triad movies from Hong Kong’s Golden Age (1985-1995). Chambara flicks generally boast skillful actors, literate screenplays, elegant cinematography, evocative sets, and even lovely music scores. Triad movies from the 80s and early […]
