≡ 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: Horror/ Satire/ Exploitation
Director: Alexandre Aja
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Director Alexandre Aja lets you know what kind of movie Pirahna is going to be within 30 seconds. He gives us a broad and knowing wink at Jaws, the mother of all big bad fish stories, going so far as to include a […]
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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: Horror, Recommended, Satire, Science Fiction, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Horror/ Satire/ Science Fiction
Director: Stuart Gordon
Year: 1986
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The key to enjoying From Beyond is to keep in mind that the film is intended as the film analog to the old EC Horror Comics, seasoned with some nudity and mild S&M.
The source material is a H. P. Lovecraft story, but […]
≡ Category: Essential, Horror, Satire, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Satire/ Horror/ Suspense
Director: Richard Franklin
Year: 1983
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I remember being impressed with Psycho II when it came out back in 1983, but it’s taken me the intervening 27 or so years for me to fully appreciate how brilliant it is. It also underscores for me how critics, like most people, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Satire/ Exploitation/ Science Fiction
Director: Paul Bartel
Year: 1975
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
You’ve got to hand it to screenwriters Ib Melchior, Robert Thom, and Charles B. Griffith — a quarter century down the road, their satire of political manners seems awfully sharp, even prescient.
You want examples? When a governmental resistance group starts […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Satire/ Horror
Director: Robert Rodriguez/ Quentin Tarantino/ Rob Zombie/ Eli Roth/ Edgar Wright
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Normally, when I review a movie, I’m focused on stuff like cinematography, plotting, characterization, acting, martial arts choreography and so on, and to a certain extent, that’s true of Grindhouse, too. But all of […]
≡ Category: Action, Movie Reviews By Country, Recommended, Satire, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/Satire
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I remember when Kick-Ass came out, there was a brouhaha over an eleven-year-old character in the movie using foul language. These critics kind of missed the point.
Kick-Ass is an examination of the superhero mythos in the cold, clear light of reality. Or at least that’s […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Suspense/ Horror/ Satire
Director: Various
Year: 2007
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s becoming more clear than ever what Dexter is all about. The core struggle in the series is Dexter’s search for personal fulfillment juxtaposed against deadening responsibility and sacrifice. In the first season, Dexter sought meaning in familiar relationships; in the second, […]
≡ Category: Action, Not Worth Your Time, Satire, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Satire
Director: Oliver Stone
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Who knows what Natural Born Killers was really about back when it was a script by Quentin Tarantino? Thanks to writer/director Oliver Stone, it’s now a dissertation about the depravity of our culture, which has been churning out junk culture and serial killers like […]
