Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Suspense
Director: Tom Gries
Year: 1975

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Many times, revisiting genre movies from the past can be dispiriting. The violence is no longer jarring, the pace seems lethargic, the acting is from an extinct style. On the other hand, Breakout is better than I remembered, and I enjoyed it […]

Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Martial Arts
Director: Billy Chan
Year: 1987

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Before we get started on Code Of Honor, I’d like to vent a little bit.
The state of Hong Kong film preservation is simply deplorable. For example, the best print Tai Seng could get for Code Of Honor was an old […]

Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Corey Yuen
Year: 2002

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It’s hard to believe that anyone involved with the ghastly Transporter 3 had anything to do with the original, but it’s true. Luc Besson produced both movies and Besson and his regular screenwriting partner, Robert Mark Kamen, wrote both scripts.
I dunno, maybe Besson has gotten […]

Country: Thailand
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Year: 2005

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When I first watched The Protector AKA Tom Yum Goong in the theater, I was irritated, in spite of the awesome martial arts sequences. It was obvious that Miramax had cut the living crap out of the movie. It barely made any sense. As […]

Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Blaxploitation
Director: Jamaa Fanaka
Year: 1979

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I first saw Penitentiary in a now long defunct grindhouse theater in downtown Philadelphia, where the drunks snored and the floors were sticky, I hope only with spilled soda although I suspect that’s not true. It was the perfect venue for exploitation […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Action/ Martial Arts/ Romance
Director: Alfred Cheung
Year: 1988

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Hong Kong is the birthplace of the dreaded nonsense comedy, the former British colony’s answer to Jerry Lewis. In other words, watching these so-called comedies is about as amusing as witnessing a partial abortion to most non-Chinese people. (Stephen Chow […]

Country: Germany
Genre: Drama
Director: Fatih Akin
Year: 2007
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
How interesting. Just yesterday, I reviewed Powder Blue, a movie in which melodramatic characters kept running into each other in Los Angeles in absurdly coincidental ways, which was obviously modeled on the wildly overpraised Oscar winner, Crash.
And here we have The Edge of Heaven, a […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1972
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Manhunt (or La Mala Ordina in the original Italian) is the 2nd part of writer/director Fernando Di Leo’s famed Milieu Trilogy.
Writer/director Di Leo wastes little time setting up the plot. Corso (Cyril Cusack), a mafia boss in NYC, hears that a Milanese pimp named Luca Canali […]

Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action
Director: John Woo
Year: 2008

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The opening credits for Red Cliff led me to expect the worst. The camera sails through CGI clouds and ends up at — you guessed it — a red cliff. Nothing wrong with that per se, but the images have all of the reality […]

Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Carlo Carlei
Year: 1993

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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Director Carlo Carlei has a poet’s eye. Practically every image in his film could be the basis of a painting, even though the content is frequently horrific.
There is also a bit of the poet in Vito (Manuel Colao), the beautiful little boy at the […]