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Tenderness of the Wolves [Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe] *** (1973, Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen) – Classic Movie Review 7499

Rainer Werner Fassbinder produced, edited and appears (as Wittowski) in director Ulli Lommel’s gruesome and eerie but riveting and revealing 1973 German horror film Tenderness of the Wolves (Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe), a version of […]

Aug, 26

Tenebre [Tenebrae] **** (1982, Anthony Franciosa, John Saxon, Giuliano Gemma) – Classic Movie Review 7,490

Ah, yes, ‘Terror Beyond Belief’. Dario Argento’s 1982 horror mystery thriller movie (giallo) Tenebre [Tenebrae] delivers the goods in spadefuls in this marvellously scary triumph of style over nasty and often silly content. Ah, yes, […]

Aug, 24

10 to Midnight * (1983, Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens, Gene Davis, Geoffrey Lewis, Wilford Brimley) – Classic Movie Review 7484

Old Charles Bronson is back with his usual director J Lee Thompson, once again back on the streets on the Death Wish-style vigilante beat in the basic, derivative, routine and violent Eighties thriller 10 to […]

Aug, 23

5 Card Stud *** (1968, Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall) – Classic Movie Review 7442

Director Henry Hathaway’s strongly cast but saddle-sore 1968 Western gets a big lift from the eminently watchable, cucumber-cool performances of Dean Martin as gambler Van Morgan and Mitchum as a mysterious gun-carrying minister, the Rev Jonathan […]

Aug, 14

My Friend Dahmer *** (2017, Ross Lynch, Alex Wolff, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts, Vincent Kartheiser) – Movie Review

Very creepy – a true horror story. The tricky to pull off mix of realism and black comedy really works. The acting helps a lot to keep it real and powerful. Co-writer/ director Marc Meyers’s […]

Jun, 01

The Man with Two Brains *** (1983, Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 6895

Director Carl Reiner’s likeable 1983 comedy stars Steve Martin in a rough but ready zany horror spoof about unhappily married neurosurgeon Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr (Martin)’s love affair with a woman’s talking brain (voice of Sissy Spacek) that […]

Apr, 07

Detective Chinatown 2 *** (2018, Baoqiang Wang, Haoran Liu, Yang Xiao, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Michael Pitt) – Movie Review

Detective Chinatown 2 is that rarest of all kinds of movies – a wacky slapstick action comedy serial killer thriller. With the goofy performances, and general air of carefree silly fun, you’d think they couldn’t […]

Feb, 18

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