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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Phil Karlson
Year: 1973
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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
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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: 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: Drama
Director: Doug Liman
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Anyone with a brain and a pulse knows by now that folks in the Bush administration committed treason by outing CIA agent Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) in retaliation for a New York Times editorial by her husband, ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn), which refuted […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Clint Eastwood
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It might be counterintuitive, but it turns out that Clint Eastwood is the perfect person to direct a movie about near death experiences, including large scale physical disasters.
Why? Clint tends to go for understatement. In the wrong hands, the supernatural can seem awfully hokey. And, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Larry Clark
Year: 2002
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Okay, I agree with screenwriter Harmony Korine that the fabric of American life is fraying, but the bottom hasn’t fallen out to the extent he would have us believe.
Most of the events that take place in Ken Park are within the realm of believability. Do I […]
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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 […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Mainstream
Director: John Schlesinger
Year: 1990
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Pacific Heights plays like a yuppie horror story.
Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) decide to invest in a Victorian in Pacific Heights. They’re overextended financially, but they figure they’ll make up the difference by renting out the two […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Mainstream
Director: Daniel Petrie
Year: 1981
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I remember back when Fort Apache The Bronx came out, there was a lot of hype that it was going to show how things were really were in the Bronx, a warts and all portrait. The producers even went so far as to […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I’m a bit of an eternal optimist. The director of Kill The Irishman, Jonathan Hensleigh, is best known as the screenwriter of such entertainments as Die Hard With A Vengeance, The Punisher, Armageddon, The Saint, and Jumanji. The only movie out of this list […]
