≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Hong Kong, Romance, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Bullet Ballet/ Romance/ Drama/ Action
Director: Tsui Hark
Year: 1989
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WORTH A LOOK
In spite of luscious cinematography, rich performances, and a frequently riveting plot, A Better Tomorrow III isn’t a very good movie.
The fault lies mostly with director Tsui Hark. The movie is altogether too languorous for it’s own good. There’s too much […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Denmark, Drama, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Denmark
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Year: 2005
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For everyone who is tired of the same recycled plots and characters, have I got a movie for you.
In Adam’s Apples, neo-Nazi Adam Pedersen (Ulrich Thomsen) is sentenced to community service at a country church presided over by Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen), a priest who views […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Japan, Martial Arts, Recommended, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Kenji Misumi
Year: 1964
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Someone’s always trying to kill Zatoichi (Shintarô Katsu). When he gives up his ride on a palanquin to a woman with a baby, assassins end up killing her by mistake. Zatoichi resolves to return the baby to the child’s father in […]
≡ Category: Canada, Drama, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Canada
Genre: Drama
Director: Larysa Kondracki
Year: 2010
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Ostensibly, The Whistleblower is a true story about human trafficking that takes place in Bosnia. And it is. But it also a cautionary tale about the logical end point of a culture that celebrates the cult of the individual, in which a person assumes no responsibility […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Essential, Horror, Suspense, United Kingdom | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Horror
Director: Robin Hardy
Year: 1973
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
The Wicker Man is endlessly fascinating. Screenwriter Anthony Shaffer uses a mystery structure as an excuse to imagine what a modern version of a pagan society might look like, contrasting it with the character of Sergeant Howie (Edward Woodward, in a pathetic, amusing, […]
≡ Category: Artist Profiles, Comedy, Drama, France, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Alain Corneau
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
As surely everyone but the dullest bulb knows by now, the 1% of the richest people in the world have bought the world’s governments and use them to further solidify their power and wealth.
Part of the strategy of the wealthy is to influence education so […]
≡ Category: Action, Ghost, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Ghost/ Action
Director: Tony Leung Siu-Hung
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The rest of Vendetta doesn’t quite live up to the blistering first 20 minutes, but it’s a lot of fun, anyway.
Hung Long (a scary Tommy Wong) is one of those total criminal badasses from the Mainland. Along with his brother Tony (Leung Sap-Yat) […]
≡ Category: Action, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Hua Shan
Year: 1983
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When Prince Jin (Chiu Gwok) rapes the wife of the deposed Tang Dynasty emperor, who then commits suicide, bodyguard Li Lang (Lau Wing) vows revenge.
But Master Chen Bo (Lung Tien-Hsiang) sees a way to use this unfortunate turn of events to his […]
≡ Category: Action, Fantasy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Romance, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Action/ Martial Arts/ Romance
Director: Su Chao-Pin
Year: 2010
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Reign of Assassins might be the last wuxia film Michelle Yeoh is ever in. She is a precious resource, one of the most soulful and intelligent actresses in the world. Putting her in a business as usual flick meant to make […]
≡ Category: Action, France, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Jacques Deray
Year: 1980
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I must have Occupy Wall Street on the brain. I am once again reminded that the phenomenon of rich and powerful people protecting their own perceived interests at the expense of everyone else is as old as civilization itself.
Three Men To Destroy, based on a novel […]
