Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "dark comedy"

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Suburbicon ** (2017, Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Oscar Isaac, Noah Jupe) – Movie Review

This disappointing, misjudged, awkwardly plotted Coen Brothers-style dark comedy crime thriller just doesn’t catch fire despite the frenzied efforts of the talented cast and director. I say Coen Brothers-style film, and they originally wrote the script […]

Nov, 30

Spoor [Pokot] **** (2017, Agnieszka Mandat-Grabka, Wiktor Zborowski, Jakub Gierszal) – Movie Review 

Agnieszka Mandat-Grabka grabs the attention as Janina Duszejko, a seemingly dotty older woman who lives alone in the Klodzko Valley south-western Poland, close to the border with the Czech Republic. She teaches kids English, part time, and looks after her […]

Sep, 28

House of 1000 Corpses ** (2003, Sid Haig, Karen Black, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, Michael J Pollard, Chris Hardwick, Erin Daniels, Jennifer Jostyn, Rainn Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 4710

Four young people (Chris Hardwick, Erin Daniels, Jennifer Jostyn and Rainn Wilson) idiotically seeking the legend of Dr Satan, meet the crazy Captain Spaulding, who points them in direction of a family of psycho cannibals. […]

Nov, 27

Beat the Devil **** (1953, Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre, Bernard Lee) – Classic Movie Review 2,664

John Huston’s quirky and likable 1953 comedy action adventure classic film Beat the Devil stars Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther, the go-between for a gang of uranium racketeers who want to exploit land in Africa. […]

Jul, 04

The Voices *** (2014, Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver) – Movie Review

In this extremely dark black comedy from cartoonist turned director Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), Ryan Reynolds plays Jerry, a deranged serial killer who listens to the voices of the women (Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick) he’s killed […]

Mar, 19

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