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Angel Face (1952)

March 18, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Deceptive in nature

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, 1952, angel face, car crash, femme fatale, film noir, frank s. nugent, jean simmons, los angeles, movie review, murder, murder trial, oscar millard, otto preminger, robert mitchum

Born To Be Bad (1950)

April 14, 2024 Mikkel Frederiksen1 Comment

Wicked evil, wicked fun

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950, 1950s, born to be bad, edith sommer, femme fatale, film noir, friedrich hollaender, joan fontaine, joan leslie, movie review, nicholas ray, robert ryan, san francisco, zachary scott

The Killers (1964)

January 28, 2024March 1, 2024 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

The doomed and the damnable

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1960s, 1964, action, angie dickinson, cruelty, don siegel, femme fatale, gene l. coon, john cassavettes, lee marvin, movie review, racing, review, ronald reagan, the killers

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)

November 27, 2023November 27, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

From rubble to riches

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1970s, 1978, femme fatale, germany, hannah schygulla, Pea Fröhlich, Peter Märthesheimer, rainer werner fassbinder, review, strong female lead, the marriage of maria braun, war, ww2

The Last Seduction (1994)

May 20, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

A real maneater

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1990s, 1994, city vs countryside, erotic thriller, femme fatale, john dahl, linda fiorentino, manipulation, peter berg, review, steve barancik, the last seduction, thriller

Dream Lover (1993)

April 8, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

When dream logic substitutes for filmmaking

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1990s, 1993, deception, erotic, erotic thriller, femme fatale, james spader, madchen amick, nicholas kazan, review, thriller

Decision To Leave (2022)

November 4, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Uneasy precipice, devastating plummet

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2022, cannes, chung seo-kyung, decision to leave, femme fatale, korea, murder, park chan-wook, Park Hae-il, police, tang wei

Body Heat (1981)

June 17, 2022 Mikkel Frederiksen4 Comments

Like watching a now-extinct jaguar in its prime. A sexy, seductive jaguar.

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1981, femme fatale, film noir, florida, kathleen turner, lawrence kasdan, murder, sex, willilam hurt
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