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Posts Tagged "Philip Ridley"

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Heartless ***½ (2009, Jim Sturgess, Timothy Spall, Luke Treadaway, Clémence Poésy, Eddie Marsan) – Classic Movie Review 3441

Jim Sturgess impresses again as Jamie Morgan, a young misfit photographer with a heart-shaped birthmark on his face, who finds the gangs terrorising his East London neighbourhood are murderous demons. In writer-director Philip Ridley’s first […]

Mar, 02

The Krays ***** (1990, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Billie Whitelaw) – Classic Movie Review 1992

Director Peter Medak and brilliant screenwriter Philip Ridley bring the shocking tale of the life and crimes of the notorious, horrendous and now legendary real-life London East End gangster twins Ronald and Reginald Kray to the […]

Dec, 22

The Reflecting Skin **** (1990, Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 733

Writer-director Philip Ridley’s ultra-disturbing and dazzling 1990 art movie mixes horror, movie poetry and black humour to commanding effect. Jeremy Cooper (aged 10) plays Seth Dove, a fantasising boy in rural America in the 1950s, whose father, […]

Jan, 22

The Passion of Darkly Noon **** (1995, Brendan Fraser, Ashley Judd, Viggo Mortensen) – Classic Movie Review 732

Clever British writer-director Philip Ridley’s 1996 mystery thriller is a real eye-opener. Brendan Fraser stars as Darkly Noon, a handsome young man with a strict religious background, who is found ailing and exhausted in the American […]

Jan, 22

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