≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet
Director: To Pak-Hon
Year: 1992
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There isn’t a whole lot to Come From China. You won’t find any great themes, cultural significance, or moving human drama. But one thing screenwriter James Fung does well is set up a situation that practically guarantees non-stop action and director […]
≡ Category: Drama, Italy, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Director: Damiano Damiani
Year: 1971
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L’istruttoria E Chiusa Dimentchi aka The Case Is Closed: Forget About It has much in common with every other prison expose you’ve ever seen, with one exception: it’s about the Italian prison system. This makes a bigger difference than you might expect.
When people are driven mad […]
≡ Category: Art, Recommended, United Kingdom | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Art
Director: Ken Russell
Year: 1988
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Salome’s Last Dance is almost but not quite a filmed play.
On Guy Fawkes Day, 1892, playwright Oscar Wilde (Nickolas Grace) is invited to a high class brothel in order to watch a production of his play Salome, which has been banned in England. He watches […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Girls with Guns, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Bullet Ballet/ Girls With Guns
Director: Tony Liu Jun-Guk
Year: 1989
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I saw Devil Hunters under very poor circumstances: a vcd sourced from a crappy Ocean Shores pan and scan videotape which cut off a good part of the subtitles, which were white and tended to blend into […]
≡ Category: Giallo, Italy, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Giallo/ Suspense
Director: Emilio Miraglia
Year: 1972
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Is The Red Queen Kills 7 Times scary? No. Suspenseful? Nah. Horrifying? Nope. Funny? You bet.
The Red Queen Kills 7 Times starts out like a straight Gothic horror tale. After young girls Kitty and Evelyn Wildenbrück come to blows over a doll, Grandpa Wildenbrück tells […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Chan Chuen
Year: 1989
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Chinese Cop Out starts out as a woefully generic Big Circle picture about Chinese gangs set loose in Hong Kong, but it turns into something just different enough to warrant a recommendation.
The first thing that saves Chinese Cop out is the casting. […]
≡ Category: Drama, Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Jason Reitman
Year: 2009
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Up In The Air plays like a dare. Can Jason Reitman get an audience to spend 90 minutes with utterly loathsome characters and feel grateful for the privilege?
Exhibit A: Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), whose job is to fly around the country firing people. Ryan loves […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended, Romance, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Romance/ Martial Arts
Director: Wilson Tong
Year: 1991
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In Hong Kong gambling movies, there generally isn’t a whole lot of actual gambling going on. Really, it’s a competition over who can most cleverly cheat. Adding to the fun, in the best gambling movies, there’s also stunts, gunplay and […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Genre: Comedy/ Martial Arts
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1980
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Chan Wing is a typical late 70s early 80s Sammo Hung character, in other words a clown. He challenges martial artists in the hope of finding one who fights better than him, and then becoming his disciple. Chan Wing’s search is disappointing until the day […]
≡ Category: Action, Recommended, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Action
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Year: 2012
Rating:
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Contraband has one of the most woeful first acts imaginable, a fairly good 2nd act, and a so-so 3rd act.
Half of the deficiencies of Contraband are due to lack of screenwriting craft and the other half are due to the filmmakers being unclear […]
