Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "dark comedy"

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Man Bites Dog (1992, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Nelly Pappaert, Hector Pappaert) – Classic Movie Review 10,951

Unluckily for us, Benoît Poelvoorde plays a thieving psychopathic serial killer called Ben, who takes a camera crew around with him to film his murders, in the 1992 Belgian satirical black comedy mockumentary film Man […]

Feb, 22

L’Age d’Or ***** (1930, Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque) – Classic Movie Review 10,939

Director Luis Buñuel’s still provocative, vital and amusing 1930 avant-garde Surrealist masterpiece early work L’Age d’Or [The Golden Age] intends to shock and provoke as it sends up the hypocrisies of organised religion and bourgeois society, […]

Feb, 19

The Day Shall Come (2019, Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick, Denis O’Hare, Andrel McPherson, Miles Robbins, Kayvan Novak) – Movie Review

Marchánt Davis stars in the 2019 crime comedy The Day Shall Come as poor, nutty Miami projects preacher Moses, who is offered an arms deal for the cash to save his family from eviction by […]

Oct, 15

Motel Hell ** (1980, Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 8745

Rory Calhoun stars as an extremely creepy old man called Farmer Vincent Smith, who runs the Motel Hello with his sister Ida (Nancy Parsons), and sells meat that originates with the customers – unsuspecting kidnapped […]

Jul, 22

My Learned Friend **** (1943, Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 8393

Will Hay’s last film My Learned Friend, directed in 1943 by Basil Dearden and Will Hay, is extremely funny and has the bonus of an unusually macabre edge to it. Hay plays seedy lawyer William […]

Apr, 24

Creepshow **** (1982, Hal Holbrook, Leslie Nielsen, Adrienne Barbeau) – Classic Movie Review 8382

Despite two of horror’s biggest names and some of Hollywood’s most reliable actors, the 1982 horror anthology movie Creepshow is all too gross and sometimes uncertain of tone to be totally entertaining. Yet, still, its […]

Apr, 20

A Jolly Bad Fellow [They All Died Laughing] **** (1964, Leo McKern, Janet Munro, Maxine Audley, Dennis Price) – Classic Movie Review 8330

Director Don Chaffey’s 1964 British comedy A Jolly Bad Fellow [They All Died Laughing] stars Leo McKern as a philandering English chemistry don, Professor Kerris Bowles-Ottery, who develops an undetectable poison to bump off those […]

Apr, 03

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