http://trashcinemaclub.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:07:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Country: France Genre: Action Director: Fred Cavayé Year: 2010 [rating:4/5] TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE 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 ... http://trashcinemaclub.com/movie-reviews-by-country/europe/france/point-blank-a-terrific-thriller-about-nothing/ Country: Hong Kong Genre: Romance/ Drama Director: Sherman Wong Year: 1993 [rating:4.5/5] 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 ... http://trashcinemaclub.com/movie-reviews-by-country/asia/hong-kong/the-enigma-of-love-the-cheater/ Country: Japan Genre: Action/ Pinku Eiga/ Swordplay/ Martial Arts Director: Takashi Tsuboshima Year: 1974 [rating:4/5] TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE 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 ... http://trashcinemaclub.com/movie-reviews-by-country/asia/japan/demon-spies-perversity-rules/ Country: Hong Kong Genre: Action/ Comedy Director: Alex Cheung Year: 1988 [rating:3.5/5] TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE The opening images of Chatter Street Killer are of modern skyscrapers in Hong Kong: gleaming, cold, impersonal. Then the camera pans down. At street level, the working class is still living in old Hong Kong neighborhoods that feel more like ... http://trashcinemaclub.com/movie-reviews-by-country/asia/hong-kong/chatter-street-killer-small-town-in-a-big-city/ Country: Italy Genre: Spaghetti Western Director: Sergio Sollima Year: 1966 [rating:4.5] TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE 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 ... http://trashcinemaclub.com/movie-reviews-by-country/europe/italy-movie-reviews/the-big-gundown-the-hunter-and-the-hunted/ Country: Hong Kong Genre: Action/ Comedy Director: Yuen Biao Year: 1992 [rating:3.5/5] TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE A Kid From Tibet starts off with several advantages. First, there aren't many movies made in which one of the main protagonists is a Tibetan monk. That's pretty novel to start with. And director/star Yuen Biao managed to get amazing ... http://trashcinemaclub.com/movie-reviews-by-country/asia/hong-kong/a-kid-from-tibet-the-buddhist-way/ Country: Japan Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay/ Martial Arts Director: Kazuo Ikehiro Year: 1964 [rating:3/5] TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE Considering how simple the central conflict of Zatoichi And The Chest Of Gold is, the film can be awfully confusing. When Zatoichi (Shintarô Katsu) happens upon a celebration, it turns out that the villagers are happy because they have ... http://trashcinemaclub.com/movie-reviews-by-country/asia/japan/zatoichi-and-the-chest-of-gold-obfuscating-simplicity/ Country: Hong Kong Genre: Comedy Director: Kenny Bee Year: 1986 [rating:3/5] TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE One year before Danny Devito's Throw Momma From The Train, screenwriter Alex Law came up with this comic version of the classic Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller Strangers On A Train. In this version of the story, Football Fa (Chow Yun-Fat) and Roberto ... http://trashcinemaclub.com/movie-reviews-by-country/asia/hong-kong/100-ways-to-kill-your-wife-a-comic-inversion-of-strangers-on-a-train/ Country: Japan Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy Director: Yukio Noda Year: 1970 [rating:1.5/5] NOT WORTH YOUR TIME Okay, you've got machine gun slaughters, drug wars, boat chases, death by spear gun, explosions galore, car chases, and much more. And yet, Yakuza Deka: The Assassin is pretty darned boring. How can that be? Let's start with the action elements. ... http://trashcinemaclub.com/movie-reviews-by-country/asia/japan/yakuza-deka-the-assassin-the-big-bust/ Country: Holland Genre: Comedy Director: Paul Verhoeven Year: 1971 [rating:4/5] TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE 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 ... http://trashcinemaclub.com/movie-reviews-by-rating/highly-recommended/business-is-business-except-when-its-not/