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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Mainstream
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Year: 2009
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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 […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Mainstream
Director: John Schlesinger
Year: 1990
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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: Drama/ Mainstream
Director: Harold Becker
Year: 1989
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
As often as not, when I watch an old film that really impressed me, it hasn’t aged well, and I end up being disappointed. The opposite case, when a film grows in stature over time, is more rare.
Sea Of Love has held up […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Mainstream
Director: John Irvin
Year: 1986
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Considering that Raw Deal is an 80s era Arnold Schwartzenegger action extravaganza, it’s not as silly as it might be.
That’s due to a surfeit of talent both in front of and behind the cameras. The script, by Gary DeVore and Norman Wexler, is reasonably […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/Science Fiction/Mainstream
Director: Roland Emmerich
Year: 2009
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I think that 2012 is supposed to be fun, but it might be a little too intense for that. Don’t get me wrong — the science is ridiculous, the individual characterizations are rather shallow, and the Perils-Of-Pauline escapes are just as over the top […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Suspense/ Mainstream
Director: Tony Scott
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s gotten to the point when I hear about a new Tony Scott movie, I feel apprehension rather than anticipation. There’s a couple of reasons for this. Over the past ten years, Scott’s cinematic language has gotten increasingly abstract to the point […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Mainstream
Director: Robert Schwentke
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I have to admit, I wasn’t too eager to see RED, which seeks to mine yucks out of the prospect of a bunch of old geezers being action heroes, but it was better than I expected.
Now, if director Robert Schwentke and writers Jon […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Fantasy/ Mainstream
Director: David Yates
Year: 2009
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Before we get further along in this review, let me say that I have zero interest in the Harry Potter universe. Even so, this is the 6th Harry Potter movie I’ve seen. Does that mean that I have kids? No, just that I love […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Mainstream/ Martial Arts
Director: Richard Donner
Year: 1998
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
At first, it seems like Lethal Weapon 4 is going to be an unmitigated disaster.
In the opening sequence, some nut is running around Hollywood Boulevard with a flame thrower and an automatic rifle, rocking out on AC/DC or something. (You think I’m […]
