Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Homicide Detective"

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Split Second *** (1992, Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Neil Duncan, Michael J Pollard, Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, Ian Drury) – Classic Movie Review 11,974

Director Tony Maylam’s 1992 British/ US science fiction action horror thriller film Split Second stars Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Neil Duncan, Michael J Pollard, Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, and Ian Drury. Rutger Hauer stars as a burnt-out […]

Mar, 02

Homicide **** (1991, Joe Mantegna, William H Macy, Vincent Guastaferro, Ving Rhames, Natalija Nogulich, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ricky Jay, J J Johnston) – Classic Movie Review 7832

The 1991 movie Homicide is a smart, upmarket neo-noir crime thriller from clever writer-director David Mamet, who ignores some of the genre’s thrills at his peril in a look at anti-Semitism and racism. Joe Mantegna […]

Nov, 26

Crime of Passion *** (1957, Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr, Fay Wray, Royal Dano, Robert Griffin, Dennis Cross) – Classic Movie Review 7615

Director Gerd Oswald’s 1957 film noir crime drama Crime of Passion stars Barbara Stanwyck as cop’s wife Kathy Ferguson Doyle, a sassy San Francisco newspaper advice columnist, who gives up her job and pulls out […]

Sep, 22

Blood Relatives [Les Liens de Sang] *** (1978, Donald Sutherland, Stéphane Audran, Donald Pleasence, David Hemmings, Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois) – Classic Movie Review 6268

This dark and mysterious 1978 sexual crime mystery chiller with an incest theme comes from the renowned French director Claude Chabrol, who gives his bleak-toned adaptation of an Ed McBain novel a touch of class. […]

Nov, 18

The Ghoul ** (2016, Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Rufus Jones, Niamh Cusack, Geoffrey McGivern, Waen Shepherd, Paul Kaye) – Movie Review

Tom Meeten stars as an ex-police detective who goes undercover as the patient of a psychotherapist (Niamh Cusack) he believes is linked to a baffling double murder. As he investigates, he pretends to be mentally […]

Aug, 12

The Naked City ***** (1948, Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 1581

Director Jules Dassin’s influential, double-Oscar-winning 1948 documentary-style thriller is still sizzlingly exciting and atmospheric. It succeeds triumphantly in being designed to give a feel of vibrant ‘you are there’ reality by being based on a true case […]

Aug, 23

Laura ***** (1944, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 335

‘The story of a love that became the most fearful thing that ever happened to a woman!’ Director Otto Preminger’s glorious 1944 romantic mystery thriller Laura in the best film noir vein still exerts its […]

Oct, 28

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