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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Exploitation
Director: Various
Year: 2006
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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, […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Exploitation
Director: Various
Year: 2005
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There are plenty of literal minded people who will want to pick on HBO’s television series Rome for deviating from the historical record. Nobles have sex with horse traders in front of servants; events that took years are telescoped into days or weeks; words […]
≡ Category: Essential, Satire, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Satire
Director: Sidney Lumet
Year: 1976
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Network is widely celebrated as a prescient satire on network television and where popular culture was going at the time. It’s safe to say that screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky was right on target, anticipating reality TV and trashy talk shows, for example.
But Chayefsky’s biggest coup […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Law Chi-Leung
Year: 2000
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Double Tap is a sterling example of the internationalist style that emerged from the ashes of the Golden Age of Hong Kong. Gone are the outsized performances, the riotous color schemes, the crazy headlong energy. In their place, we have calibrated performances, lightly stylized […]
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Country: France
Genre: Suspense
Director: Henri Verneuil
Year: 1969
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Here is a movie with hardly any action. Nobody so much as raises their voice. And yet it’s nail bitingly suspenseful.
All of the elements of The Sicilian Clan with the exception of the music score (more on that in a minute) work together, but the success […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Suspense/ Drama
Director: Sergio Sollima
Year: 1967
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Face To Face has gunfights in it to be sure, but it’s not an action picture. It’s really a character study, and at it’s heart, a philosophical inquiry, like Sergio Corbucci’s masterpiece, The Great Silence.
When Professor Brett Fletcher (Gian Maria Volonté) takes […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Sam Mendes
Year: 2012
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Apparently, the producers of the Bond films, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, have learned their lesson from the deplorable flop Quantum of Solace. It’s not that the story is any better than last time. Indeed, it’s just a gussied up tale of a disgruntled […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Jimmy Wang Yu
Year: 1976
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After watching Master Of The Flying Guillotine, my respect for Jimmy Wang Yu has increased exponentially. He’s never been much of a martial artist, but here he’s the director, writer and star, and he’s exemplary in all three roles.
The Ching dynasty has […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action
Director: Mario Caiano
Year: 1977
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Weapons Of Death is outrageously entertaining from beginning to end. Just don’t expect anything like a serious movie. Every couple of minutes, there’s some gratuitous violence, stunt, or nudity. There’s nothing like a steady, logical buildup, leading to a denouement. Weapons Of Death is composed […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: O Sing-Pui
Year: 1990
Rating:
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An Eye For An Eye is the sort of flick that makes you remember why you fell in love with Hong Kong movies in the first place.
The triad old timers are not happy with Boss Tung (Foo Wang-Tat). He won’t allow prostitution, drugs, […]
