Crimes of Passion

Pros: it's campy enough
Cons: may be a little over the top for some to understand

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Crimes of Passion, released in 1984, stars a quite different Kathleen Turner than you see in Romancing the Stone, although she won Best Actress from LAFCA that year for both these parts.

I was...

Pros: Kathleen Turner, extremely provocative
Cons: May be much too explicit for most people

Director Ken Russell, in 1984, created a weird, hyperactive,
sexual, and satirical thriller "Crimes of Passion" starring
Kathleen Turner. It bombed, sadly it's actually good, and
I assume fell into obscurity on video store shelves. Much...

Pros: Realistic yet at times excessive look at sex,love and religion. Suggestive cinematography. Good acting.
Cons: Its purpose or its message is a little murky. Edgy direction by Russell at times.

Ken Russell can be considered one of the most controversial and doomed Film directors working today. Considered ''the Bad Boy in British Cinema,'' in a way he reminds me of Paul Schrader in that he also vents in his movies a concern about...