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Country: United States
Genre: Art/ Drama
Director: Shi-Zheng Chen
Year: 2007
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Dark Matter has an engaging subject. How does a brilliant and idealistic young person from another culture cope with institutional politics in a university setting?
Writer/director Shi-Zheng Chen doesn’t quite succeed in making a coherent film from this material, for a variety of reasons, but mostly […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Art/ Action
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Year: 2009
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
If I didn’t know any better, I would have said that Sin Nombre was a Mexican film, but Sin Nombre was actually written and directed by Cary Fukunaga, an American who nonetheless lived in Mexico City for a time and is fluent in […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Mainstream/ Art
Director: Stephen Daldry
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
When The Readers was in theaters, I remember reading all sorts of scathing reviews. However, my wife really wanted to see the movie, and besides, critics are frequently full of crap, right? So I decided to watch it on DVD, anyway.
For a while, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
My first thought when I started watching There Will Be Blood is that it would be a hatchet job on capitalism and religion, but writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is up to something more interesting and elusive.
When we first meet Daniel Plainview (Daniel […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Erick Zonca
Year: 2008
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Keep in mind that this is not a general film criticism website. I write mostly about genre, so I will tend to be especially critical of movies that make use of genre without making good on it’s satisfactions.
Take Julia. I knew going in that it […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Art/ Comedy
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 1992
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Let’s start with the obvious. Husbands and Wives is an art flick — the readership of TrashCinemaClub.com isn’t the core audience. But remember, TrashCinemaClub.com has become a general purpose film criticism site with a focus on trash cinema, so I’ll be reviewing films […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Art
Director: Michael Cimino
Year: 1978
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s kind of surprising that The Deer Hunter won an Academy Award for Best Picture back in 1978. It’s a long picture, over three hours. The first hour of the movie is almost like a documentary about a community of Russian immigrants […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: David Lynch
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Blue Velvet is an art film, make no mistake about it, but the wealth and power of the transgressive imagery in Blue Velvet puts most exploitation flicks to shame, which is the reason that there is a review about it on this site.
The opening sequence […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Art/ Suspense
Director: Michael Haneke
Year: 2008
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
If you watch Funny Games, Michael Haneke’s practically shot by shot English language remake of his 1997 German language film, expect to be punked.
Here’s the plot: two young punks stage a home invasion of a nice young family for no better reason than […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Year: 1972
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
When The Godfather was released in 1972, it was meant to be a mainstream melodrama, not an art film. Yet, 35 years later, that’s what is has become for all intents and purposes. In most critical and popular lists, The Godfather is ranked among […]
