≡ Category: Action, Drama, Highly Recommended, Movie Reviews, Romance, Suspense, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Romance/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Year: 1972
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The Getaway is something a little different from Sam Peckinpah. There’s action in it, but it’s not really an action movie. It’s mostly about the stresses put on the relationship between Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) and Carol McCoy (Ali MacGraw).
The opening […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Bullet Ballet/ Drama
Director: David Lam
Year: 1992
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All history lessons should be as fun as Powerful Four. It seems that, during the 50s and 60s, the Hong Kong Police Department was totally corrupt. Not only did cops take bribes to look the other way, they actively participated in […]
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Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Claude Chabrol
Year: 1988
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I sat down to watch Story of Women with the expectation that it would be a drama, but I was in for a rude and welcome surprise.
Marie Latour (Isabelle Huppert) must somehow care for two children in Nazi-occupied France while […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Comedy/ Suspense
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1990
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I have a love/hate relationship with Wong Jing, leaning heavily towards the hate side of the equation. Wong Jing loves toilet humor, he pretty much has contempt for the screenwriting verities, and his taste is firmly in the gutter. To give […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Dennis Law
Year: 2010
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Director Dennis Law’s latest flick, Bad Blood, is a corker.
After Andy Lok, the head of a triad gang, dies, there are problems related to passing the baton of leadership, as well as a great deal of money owed to the triad […]
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Country: United States
Genre: Drama/ Action/ Mainstream
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Year: 1980
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Brubaker is an example of a type of movie that is almost extinct. Take a story about a socially relevant issue, tart it up a little with some violence, and tell it intelligently. It’s an approach that requires expert execution in order […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Exploitation
Director: Shunya Ito
Year: 1972
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I’m not sure what I expected from Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, but I was surprised by what I got. I was familiar with star Meiko Kaji from the Lady Snowblood movies and, sure enough, we are often treated to her otherworldly glare here, […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Romance
Director: Stephen Shin
Year: 1991
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Here’s a curious thing. Hong Kong is much better at remaking foreign films than the United States. Here’s some American remakes: Abre Los Ojos became Vanilla Sky; Infernal Affairs become The Retarded — oops, The Departed; and Insomnia became the Al Pacino […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, Movie Reviews, United Kingdom | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Danny Boyle/ Loveleen Tandan
Year: 2008
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For most people, a tour of the slums of Mumbai would be intolerably depressing. But director Danny Boyle and writer Simon Beaufoy had the genius idea to camouflage the harrowing experiences of Mumbai street kids (or slumdogs, as they are apparently called […]
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Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Horror/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Dick Cho
Year: 1998
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A Chinese Torture Chamber Story II may not be the nonstop exercise in hilarity that the first installment in the series was, but it tells a wonderfully perverse tale in it’s own right.
As our story begins, Lotus Wong (Yolinda Yan) […]