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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Action/ Suspense
Director: George Gallo
Year: 2009
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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
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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: Comedy/ Satire/ Romance/ Fantasy
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2011
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Midnight In Paris is a slight but amusing effort from Woody Allen. It gets extra points for avoiding Woody’s usual pitfall of making all of the characters sound like versions of himself. For a change, he has written characters who are very […]
≡ 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: 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: Comedy, Essential, Romance, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1955
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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: Comedy
Director: Miguel Arteta
Year: 2011
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Not too many films are made about Red State folks, and on the rare occasions when Hollywood deigns to examine the lives of denizens of the flyover states, the tendency is to be condescending and exaggerate social tendencies to the point of caricature.
To some extent, […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Exploitation, Highly Recommended, Satire, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Satire/ Exploitation
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Year: 2010
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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: Comedy, Not Worth Your Time, Romance, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Romance/ Comedy
Director: Ivan Reitman
Year: 2011
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Here’s a film that exhibits an all too common tendency in modern Hollywood films. The writers, in this case Elizabeth Meriwether and Michael Samonek, have no clue about real people behave or talk. Very little in No Strings Attached rings true.
Emma (Natalie Portman) and […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Comedy
Director: Bob Clark
Year: 1973
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
The first time I saw Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things, back in my misspent youth, it was under perfect circumstances: I was with friends, it was pouring outside, I was stoned out of my mind on hashish, and we started watching the movie about […]
