≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Girls with Guns, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Girls With Guns
Director: Stephen Tung Wai
Year: 1995
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Fox Hunter lacks some of the usual virtues of films from the Golden Age of Hong Kong, but more than makes up for it in other ways.
Scripts in Hong Kong action films from that era were often loose […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Ann Hui
Year: 2009
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You’ve got to hand it to Ann Hui. She’s been making films since 1979 and she just keeps improving. Night And Fog is the more assured film I’ve seen her direct yet. The compositions, the camera movements, the cinematography, the music, are all […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Drama
Director: Wu Ma
Year: 1990
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In 1930s Shanghai, the genteel art form of “chaste” opera is already long passé, so the performances of Pops’ (Wu Ma) all female opera troupe are sparsely attended, and then only by underworld types who don’t really appreciate their artistry. These […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Alexander Payne
Year: 2011
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The Descendants is an almost unbearably sad movie, despite a happy ending of sorts.
In the voiceover that opens the film, the writers give Matt King (George Clooney) a speech about how he can’t believe his Mainland friends think that life in Hawaii is paradise. […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Highly Recommended, Italy, Spaghetti Western, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Suspense/ Drama/ Comedy
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Year: 1970
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For the most part, Compañeros is a solidly directed, well written piece, with a sturdy structure and a killer ending, but what really makes it work are the wonderful characters created by writer/director Sergio Corbucci and fleshed out by the […]
≡ Category: Action, Exploitation, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Lee Tso-Nam
Year: 1983
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A Life Of Ninja has just about anything you could possibly want in a ninja picture: exotic weapons, killer swordplay, high quality kung fu, and even some exploitation.
Somebody is trying to kill Chan Ming Fu (Chen Hung-Lieh), a ruthless Chinese businessman who […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, Italy | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Director: Damiano Damiani
Year: 1980
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A Man On His Knees begins with a mystery. Someone has ordered a hit on Nino Peralta (Giuliano Gemma), who runs a small snack stall on a busy street in Palermo. Nino’s best friend, Sebastiano Colicchia (Tano Cimarosa), noticed hit man Antonio Platamonte (Michele Placido), […]
≡ Category: Highly Recommended, Italy, Poliziotteschi | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1972
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Milano Calibro 9 blasts out of the gate with one of the strongest pre credit sequences in film history. It’s a perfect marriage of music (one of Luis Bacalov’s tastiest scores), editing, and muscular cinematography.
There is an elaborately choreographed exchange of money, but at […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Highly Recommended, Italy, Spaghetti Western | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Sergio Sollima
Year: 1968
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I have a confession to make. After watching five lackluster movies in a row, I was dreading a sixth. I knew I had to find as close to a sure thing as I could to rinse the bad taste out of my […]
≡ Category: Drama, Fantasy, Highly Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Fantasy/ Drama
Director: Mike Nichols
Year: 2003
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Angels In America is nothing less than playwright Tony Kushner’s attempt to make sense of the tragedy of the AIDs epidemic in the context of the 20th Century, from the point of view of a gay man. That is a staggeringly ambitious goal, […]
