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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Suspense/ Mainstream
Director: David Fincher
Year: 1997
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Investment banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is a man you love to hate: distant or dismissive to those who care about him; sickeningly wealthy; utterly ungrateful; smug; and full of a sense of entitlement. But on his birthday, Nicholas is troubled; […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Horror
Director: Joseph Ruben
Year: 1987
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There are two factors that edge The Stepfather over into greatness: one of the wittiest suspense scripts ever written, courtesy of novelist Donald Westlake, and a stunning performance by Terry O’Quinn as the title loony.
You see, Jerry Blake (Terry O’Quinn) is driven to […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Year: 1978
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The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin is the best Shaw Brothers movie I’ve ever seen, tantilizingly close to perfection.
Yes, the acting is of the “You killed my master; therefore you must die” variety, but at the highest possible level. As student Liu Yu-de, […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Horror/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Bosco Lam
Year: 1994
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Not long ago, I reviewed Mark Of The Devil in these pages. Like A Chinese Torture Chamber Story, Mark Of The Devil concerns people who have been brought up on false charges and tortured. Both films feature a fair amount of […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy/ Romance/ Drama
Director: Sammo Hung
Year: 1989
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Pedicab Driver is one of those movies that reminds you of why you fell in love with Hong Kong flicks in the first place. It’s a combination of comedy, tragedy, romance and martial arts, not necessarily in that order.
Fat Tung […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Year: 1971
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
It has become fashionable in some circles to claim that Straw Dogs is not a very good movie. One of these naysayers is writer/director Rod Lurie (Nothing But the Truth, The Last Castle, The Contender), who is remaking the film to take place […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Drama/ Suspense/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Michael Mak
Year: 1989
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I have to admit, when I sat down to watch Long Arm Of The Law III, I wasn’t expecting a whole lot. The third entry in the series is fairly obscure, unlike it’s more famous predecessors, which I thought […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Mainstream
Director: Renny Harlin
Year: 1996
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I’m not sure why The Long Kiss Goodnight wasn’t a bigger success when it came out. It is certainly entertaining enough. Maybe the leftist politics woven into the plot alienated patrons in the flyover states.
After all, the idea that a US Government agency […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action
Director: Yuen Wo-Ping
Year: 1988
Rating:
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After enduring the lackluster Danger Has Two Faces, I felt like I owed myself a treat, so I finally sat down and watched the legendary Tiger Cage, which I’d only seen in bits and pieces up until now.
Tiger Cage starts out with a blistering action […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Horror
Director: Pascal Laugier
Year: 2008
Rating:
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Martyrs starts out disturbing and only gets worse as it goes along, or better, depending on your point of view.
When she is around the age of 10, Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) escapes from imprisonment and torture in an industrial area. Traumatized, she is placed in an […]