≡ Category: Action, France, Highly Recommended, Mainstream, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Action
Director: Fred Cavayé
Year: 2010
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Point Blank AKA A Bout Portant is a thriller about absolutely nothing. By that I mean that there’s no sociopolitical or psychological subtext whatsoever. What you see is what you get.
That said, Point Blank is almost perfectly realized. Director Fred Cavayé […]
≡ Category: Action, Exploitation, Highly Recommended, Japan, Pinku Eiga, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Pinku Eiga/ Swordplay/ Martial Arts
Director: Takashi Tsuboshima
Year: 1974
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Sometimes I can be slow on the uptake. Only now do I realize that some of my very favorite Japanese movies originated from the warped pen of Kazuo Koike. There’s Lady Snowblood, Hanzo The Razor, Lone Wolf & Cub, and […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Highly Recommended, Holland | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Holland
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 1971
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It’s amazing to think that with his first film, Paul Verhoeven’s essential characteristics as a filmmaker (and those of his main screenwriter over the years, Gerard Soeteman) were already in evidence.
Business Is Business is punchy. The tone is frank (some would say vulgar). Verhoeven and […]
≡ Category: Category III, Comedy, Exploitation, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Category III/ Exploitation
Director: Michael Mak
Year: 1991
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One day, horny scholar Yan Ching (Lawrence Ng) seeks out the renowned Buddhist known as Sack Monk (Lo Tun), anxious to plumb his wisdom regarding sexual affairs. Sack Monk maintains basically that what goes around comes around. Yan Ching is incredulous. […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Highly Recommended, Japan, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Drama
Director: Tai Katô
Year: 1969
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Here we have yet another wonderful entry in the Red Peony Gambler series.
As our story begins, Red Peony Ryu (Junko Fuji) is continuing her training as a gambler so she can assume the role of leader of her clan. She does this by […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, Korea | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Drama
Director: Soo-young Park
Year: 2010
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One day, in a rural area, a child goes off to play and never comes back. A dragnet ensues but the child is not found. There have been no ransom demands.
However, convicted child molester Se-jin (Jeong-jin Lee) has recently moved into the area with his […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Fantasy, Ghost, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Ghost/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Ricky Lau
Year: 1985
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Just because a movie was extremely popular with the Hong Kong audience doesn’t mean it’s any good. Think of all the early Stephen Chow nonsense comedies or Jackie Chan’s Lucky Star flicks. On the other side of the ocean, Porky’s […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Drama
Director: Doug Liman
Year: 2010
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Anyone with a brain and a pulse knows by now that folks in the Bush administration committed treason by outing Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) in retaliation for a New York Times editorial by her husband, ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn), which refuted an assertion […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Argentina
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Marco Bechis
Year: 1999
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I have just seen a possible future of the United States and it should scare the crap out of every American. More on that, later.
In Garage Olimpo, Maria (Antonella Costa) is arrested in her home by the Argentinian military for the grave crime of….wait […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Ghost, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Action/ Romance/ Martial Arts/ Ghost/ Comedy
Director: Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Year: 1987
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For a movie which is almost universally lauded as a deathless classic of Hong Kong’s Golden Age, A Chinese Ghost Story has a pretty lame first act.
The problem isn’t so much the story.
Scholar Ling Choi San […]