Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "hitchcockian"

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Still of the Night *** (1982, Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy) – Classic Movie Review 10,887

Writer-director Robert Benton’s sophisticated but old-fashioned 1982 Still of the Night, his follow-on from his 1979 big hit Kramer vs Kramer, reunites him with Meryl Streep for a surprisingly run-of-the-mill Hitchcockian suspense thriller. But, though […]

Feb, 06

The Game **** (1997, Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, Deborah Kara Unger, Peter Donat, Carroll Baker) – Classic Movie Review 10,401

Director David Fincher’s exciting and stylish 1997 American puzzle thriller The Game stars an ideally cast Michael Douglas as very wealthy San Francisco investment banker Nicholas Van Orton, given a mysterious gift for his 48th […]

Oct, 11

Red Wedding [Les noces rouges] ***½ (1973, Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu) – Classic Movie Review 9872

Those cool and distinguished players Stéphane Audran and Michel Piccoli star in writer-director Claude Chabrol’s 1973 Hitchcockian crime thriller Red Wedding [Les noces rouges] as Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury, who are having an affair […]

Jun, 06

Mirage **** (1965, Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, Jack Weston, Leif Erickson, Kevin McCarthy) – Classic Movie Review 9,371

The 1965 neo noir chase-mystery film Mirage is a deliciously tasty, satisfyingly convoluted Hitchcockian paranoia/ amnesia/ conspiracy thriller starring a memorable line-up of Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy and Jack Weston. Director […]

Feb, 11

They Drive by Night **** (1938, Emlyn Williams, Ernest Thesiger, Anna Konstam, Allan Jeayes) – Classic Movie Review 8111

Director Arthur B Woods’s gritty, noirish 1938 vintage British black-and-white crime thriller They Drive by Night is taken from James Curtis’s 1938 novel, with the author as one of the screen-writers (screenplay and dialogue), along […]

Feb, 09

Rear Window *** (1998, Christopher Reeve, Daryl Hannah, Robert Forster) – Classic Movie Review 7786

In his first film since he was paralysed in real life in a horse-riding fall, poor Christopher Reeve does sterling work as Jason Kemp, the quadriplegic wheelchair-bound accident victim who alleviates his boredom by spying […]

Nov, 14

The Commuter *** (2018, Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Sam Neill, Elizabeth McGovern, Jonathan Banks) – Movie Review

Liam Neeson is in his element in director Jaume Collet-Serra’s good old-style fun mystery crime thriller flick along Murder on the Orient Express lines, but with some added high-octane action, plus a slick production. I’m […]

Jan, 17

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