≡ Category: Drama, Essential, Hong Kong, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Romance/ Drama
Director: Sherman Wong
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Enigma Of Love is that rarest of beasts, an excellent Hong Kong flick that doesn’t rely on action to make it’s point.
When Jackie’s (Jacky Cheung) gigolo bar is busted by tough cop Tammy (Maggie Cheung), he decides to humiliate her […]
≡ Category: Essential, Italy, Spaghetti Western | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western
Director: Sergio Sollima
Year: 1966
Rating:
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The Big Gundown has the reputation of being one of the very best spaghetti Westerns. It turns out that reputation is well earned.
The story seems simple enough at first. Cuchillo (Tomas Milian) is wanted for raping and murdering an 11 year old girl. Bounty hunter […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Essential, Romance, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Suspense/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Year: 1955
Rating:
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Most movies date poorly. Go back to the early 70s and try to watch a film like, oh, I dunno, Prime Cut with Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin. It can be tough sledding.
On the other hand, modern audiences can still enjoy Citizen Kane, […]
≡ Category: Art, Comedy, Drama, Essential, Italy, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Michael Radford
Year: 1994
Rating:
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Fleeing his native Chile to avoid arrest, poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) winds up on a remote Italian island. In the area in which he is staying, Neruda is the only person who isn’t illiterate. The local post office hires Mario Ruoppolo (Massimo […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Essential, Japan, Pinku Eiga, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Drama/ Pinku Eiga
Director: Yoshihiro Ishikawa
Year: 1968
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I have to admit, when I saw that Female Demon Ohyaku was going to be in black and white, my heart sank.
I figured that since Female Demon Ohyaku was a forerunner to the Pinku Eiga (pinky violence) genre, the levels of […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Essential, Hong Kong, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/ Drama/ Action
Director: Jeng Cheong-Woh
Year: 1972
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
How can you not love 5 Fingers of Death AKA King Boxer?
The first big laugh comes seconds into the picture when composer Wu Da-Jiang appropriates a snippet of the theme music from the old Raymond Burr television series Ironside (now we know […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Martial Arts/ Comedy/ Action
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Year: 1978
Rating:
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Normally, I’m not a big fan of 70s Shaw Brothers flicks, but Heroes of the East won me over in the first ten minutes or so.
As Heroes Of The East begins, Ho To (Gordon Liu) is digging in his heels, refusing to […]
≡ Category: Drama, Essential, Korea, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Romance
Director: Cheol-su Park
Year: 2005
Rating:
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I’ve been watching Asian cinema for about 30 years now, and during that time I’ve seen countless explicit sex scenes, but watching Green Chair, I actually found myself getting turned on. That’s a first.
Mun-hee (Jung Suh) has been sentenced to a short prison term, followed […]
≡ Category: Drama, Essential, Mainstream, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Mainstream
Director: John Schlesinger
Year: 1990
Rating:
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Pacific Heights plays like a yuppie horror story.
Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) decide to invest in a Victorian in Pacific Heights. They’re overextended financially, but they figure they’ll make up the difference by renting out the two […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Essential, Hong Kong | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Dick Cho
Year: 1991
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
During the Golden Age of Hong Kong (1985-1995), producers treated their movies like disposable product, to be dropped into theaters for a couple weeks for a quick buck and then forgotten. Nobody had the foresight to realize that these films would matter a generation […]