Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "undercover cop"

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BlacKkKlansman **** (2018, John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace) – Movie Review

BlacKkKlansman is provocative, powerful, damning, and real scary. Spike Lee is on best fighting form, making his 70s-set story relevant, delivered with a mastery of film-making skills. Director Spike Lee’s 2018 BlacKkKlansman is provocative, powerful, […]

Aug, 21

Sleepless ** (2017, Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Dermot Mulroney, Scoot McNairy) – Movie Review

Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx sleep-walks through director Baran bo Odar’s mediocre, nastily violent action thriller, based on Frédéric Jardin’s 2011 French original, Nuit blanche [Sleepless Night]. You can see what they were after, a take on a Liam Neeson-style […]

May, 03

City on Fire [Lung foo fong wan] **** (1987, Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Yueh Sun) – Classic Movie Review 4286

Allegedly the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992), director Ringo Lam’s top-notch 1987 Hong Kong violent revenge cops ‘n’ robbers thriller City on Fire [Lung foo fong wan] has no trouble standing up on its […]

Sep, 03

Swamp Women ** (1956, Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, Marie Windsor, Mike Connors, Ed Nelson, Susan Cummings) – Classic Movie Review 3979

Director Roger Corman’s 1956 American adventure film noir crime film Swamp Women stars Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, and Marie Windsor, along with Mike Connors and Ed Nelson. Three women break jail and head for a […]

Jul, 05

City Hall **** (1996, Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, Martin Landau, David Paymer, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 1508

Director Harold Becker’s 1996 true-story drama exposes shame and scandal in New York city as an innocent child is killed in the crossfire by a stray bullet when a drug dealer and an undercover cop shoot […]

Aug, 02

22 Jump Street *** (2014, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Amber Stevens, Peter Stormare, Jillian Bell, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen) – Movie Review

Soppy American police officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are once again sent age-inappropriately undercover, this time as students at a local college, after finally having made their way through high school twice. Nothing much has […]

Jun, 05

Brick Mansions **½ (2014, Paul Walker, David Belle) – Movie Review

Brick Mansions is dedicated ‘In loving memory of Paul Walker’ before the end credits. That’s cause for lots of tears and heartache among his zillions of fans. It would be great to report that this, his […]

Apr, 29

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