Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "corpse"

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Silent Tongue ** (1993, River Phoenix, Richard Harris, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney, Sheila Tousey) – Classic Movie Review 4559

Writer-director Sam Shepard’s intelligent, atmospheric, offbeat Western was filmed near Roswell, New Mexico, in spring 1992, but not released until 1994. It stars River Phoenix, Richard Harris, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney and Sheila Tousey. It is slow moving, but […]

Oct, 29

The Crimson Rivers [Les Rivières Pourpres] * (2000, Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Karim Belkhadra, Jean-Pierre Cassel) – Classic Movie Review 4452

The formidable duo of Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel star as Pierre Niemans and Max Kerkerian, a pair of French policemen who are drawn together by a series of grisly murders and a graveyard desecration in Jean-Christophe Grangé’s […]

Oct, 03

Son of Saul [Saul fia] ***** (2015, Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn) – Movie Review

Hungary-born László Nemes’s shatteringly horrific Auschwitz drama Son of Saul [Saul fia] won the 2016 Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as the FIPRESCI Prize and Grand Jury Prize at the […]

Apr, 28

Kika **** (1993, Verónica Forqué, Peter Coyote, Victoria Abril, Àlex Casanovas, Rossy de Palma, Francisca Caballero) – Classic Movie Review 3569

Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s biting 1993 black comedy is a typically savage, no-holds-barred assault on modern media culture. More focused and controlled than his early work in the Eighties, this is lit up by Victoria Abril’s powerhouse turn as […]

Apr, 16

Nightwatch * (1997, Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Patricia Arquette, Brad Dourif, Josh Brolin, Lonny Chapman, Lauren Graham, John C Reilly) – Classic Movie Review 3036

Writer-director Ole Bornedal’s 1997 thriller stars Ewan McGregor as the nightwatchman at a scary morgue in a town where somebody’s killing women and mutilating their bodies. McGregor is law student Martin Bells, who takes the […]

Nov, 07

Corpse Bride **** (2005, voice of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman) – Classic Movie Review 2930

This deliciously entertaining 2005 animated fantasy musical feature comes from quirky genius Tim Burton. It’s amusing, enchanting and original. A labour of love, Corpse Bride is a work of true artistry. It is the first […]

Sep, 28

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed *** (1969, Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Simon Ward, Freddie Jones, George Pravda, Maxine Audley, Thorley Walters) – Classic Movie Review 2772

Director Terence Fisher’s 1969 Hammer Films horror movie sequel Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed brings back Peter Cushing as the bad and depraved Baron Frankenstein, who is once again working with illegal medical experiments. Baron Frankenstein arrives in […]

Aug, 02

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