May
16
Country: Denmark
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Year: 2005
Rating:
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 […]
May
14
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Kenji Misumi
Year: 1964
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Someone’s always trying to kill Zatoichi (ShintarĂ´ 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 […]
May
12
Country: Canada
Genre: Drama
Director: Larysa Kondracki
Year: 2010
Rating:
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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 […]
May
8
Country: France
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Alain Corneau
Year: 2010
Rating:
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 […]
May
6
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) […]
Apr
28
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Kenji Misumi
Year: 1964
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Swordsman Nemuri Kyoshiro (RaizĂ´ Ichikawa) is an odd guy. He’s so used to dealing with scumbags that when he runs across someone who’s decent and moral, he’s amused and intrigued. Such is the case with Asahina, the financial advisor of the Shogunate.
Japan is […]
Apr
20
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Derek Yee
Year: 1987
Rating:
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It’s kind of asking for trouble to make a movie inspired by Dog Day Afternoon, one of the signature movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 70s. When Hollywood wanted to make a realistic picture in those days, there was nobody who could […]
Apr
16
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Suspense
Director: Chan Wing-Chiu
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I’m not going to tell you much about the plot of 3 Days Of A Blind Girl AKA Retribution Sight Unseen. Here’s what you need to know. Mrs. Ng (Veronica Yip) has just had an operation on her eyes and she will be […]
Apr
10
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When I saw the title “The Last Blood,” I immediately thought of the apocryphal tale concerning movie producer Roger Corman that he used to decide on the title and the movie poster of a film before he came up with a […]
Apr
6
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action/ Romance
Director: Jamie Luk
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Killer’s Love is one of those movies that could only be made in Hong Kong during the Golden Age. It’s a combination hired killer thriller/ fish out of water comedy/ romance.
Cheung Wai-Lun (Simon Yam) is a ruthless killer for hire. His […]
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