Writer-director Eric Red’s 1989 crime thriller Cohen and Tate tells the unlikely but consistently intriguing tale of professional assassins Cohen (Roy Scheider) and Tate (Adam Baldwin), who are assigned to abduct a nine-year-old boy witness to […]
Director Eric Red’s 1991 Body Parts is a lolloping horror-movie mongrel, stitching a timeworn chiller premise into a slick MTV-style package that immerses itself in the horrors of modern technology after micro-surgeon Dr Agatha Webb […]
Director Francesco Rosi’s 1987 Italy / France / Colombia drama Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Cronaca di una morte annunciata] is a major miscalculation, with some embarrassing work from some big names of cinema. It […]
The body in question is Madonna’s and we get to see an awful lot of it in director Uli Edel’s disastrous 1992 erotic courtroom thriller Body of Evidence. Madonna won the 1994 Razzie Award for […]
Director Uli [Ulrich] Edel’s 1981 German drama Christiane F [Christiane F – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo] is based on Christiane’s bestselling story as told to reporters at the Hamburg-based Stern weekly news magazine, and […]
It has been left to the Germans to make a film version of Hubert Selby Jr’s harrowing, controversial novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, banned following a private prosecution in July 1966, after its publication in […]
Director Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2003 surreal neo noir thriller Fear X stars John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger and James Remar. Refn co-writes the screenplay with Hubert Selby Jr, who wrote the books of Last Exit […]
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