≡ 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: 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: 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 […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Suspense, United States, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
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 […]
≡ Category: Drama, Fantasy, Highly Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Fantasy/ Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Year: 2003
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Angels In America is nothing less than playwright Tony Kushner’s attempt to make sense of the tragedy of the AIDs epidemic in the context of the 20th Century, from the point of view of a gay man. That is a staggeringly ambitious goal, […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Recommended, United States, Western | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Western
Director: Michael Winner
Year: 1971
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Lawman starts out with a archetypal setup.
In a drunken revelry, a bunch of men shoot up a town called Bannock. An old man winds up dead from a stray bullet.
It turns out that the men were employees of Vincent Bronson (Lee J. Cobb), […]
