Silent Night has plenty of Malcolm McDowell mayhem for the older crowd. Gore aficionados will have their festive fill as a softcore pornstar (Cortney Palm) is lowered into a woodchipper.

Silent Night opens in theaters Friday, December 1. As a legend of both Hong Kong and Hollywood, John Woo’s recent criticisms of Marvel and the likes are absolutely worth their weight.

One other fun comparison available is Silent Night against 2022's own action Christmas movie, Violent Night. The latter ended up with a 74% "Fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and a 55 ...

Silent Night wouldn’t exist without the row Tarantino hoed for Guy Ritchie to make stuff like Snatch and RocknRolla. It also has the modest ambition of a second-tier Tom Hardy vehicle like The Drop.

The traditional Christmas song “Silent Night” has been covered by thousands of artists, including Taylor Swift, Mariah Carey, Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra.

During Christmas Eve 1942, for instance, the Nazis staged a “Silent Night” sing-along featuring the German troops in Stalingrad during one of history’s first-ever live radio broadcasts.

While “Silent Night” may have been performed for the first time 200 years ago, Mohr had penned the poem a bit earlier, amid a trying time in Austria’s history at the end of the Napoleonic wars.

In John Woo’s ‘Silent Night,’ all is neither calm nor bright Joel Kinnaman plays a grieving father on a vengeful journey By Odie Henderson Globe Staff,Updated November 30, 2023, 2:20 p.m. 10 ...

The poem that would become “Silent Night,” written in 1816 by Joseph Mohr, came to life amid regional conflict, natural disaster and — yes, even 200 years ago — climate change.