≡ 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 CIA agent Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) in retaliation for a New York Times editorial by her husband, ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn), which refuted […]
≡ 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 […]
≡ Category: Drama, France, Highly Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Drama
Director: Claude Berri
Year: 1997
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Early on in Lucie Aubrac, the title character teaches a history class to a group of children. One of them asks, why do we study history? The answers have nothing to do with the story per se, but they inform director Claude Berri’s approach. To […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Highly Recommended, Korea, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Action
Director: Hong-jin Na
Year: 2010
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For a while, I had the mistaken notion that Korea was overrun with genius writers and directors. Films like A Frozen Flower and The Chaser, not to mention directors like Chanwook Park and Kim Ki-Duk, helped to encourage that rose-colored viewpoint.
But after seeing […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Exploitation, Highly Recommended, Satire, United States | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/ Satire/ Exploitation
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Year: 2010
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One of my favorite moments in the fanboy extravaganza Grindhouse was the faux trailer for Machete. When I found out that Robert Rodriguez was actually going to make a feature based on the trailer, I was stoked.
But like a fool, I allowed […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Suspense/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Fung Hak-On
Year: 1988
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s probably unfair to Edge Of Darkness that I’m only getting around to watching it now. Had I seen it when it came out in 1988, it would have blown me out of the back of the theater.
Back then, stories […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Highly Recommended, Japan, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Nobuo Nakagawa
Year: 1969
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I have a special affection for Hong Kong flicks from the late 80s and early 90s, but if I let myself admit it, the ratio of quality to quantity is rather low, better than action films from the United States perhaps, but nothing […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Drama, France, Highly Recommended, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: France
Genre: Romance/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Claude Berri
Year: 2007
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In a time when the middle class is disappearing throughout the world and the social safety net is increasingly being attacked, it has become increasingly difficult to create stories about friendship and romance which are hopeful and at the same time don’t insult […]
