Derek Winnert

Reality Bites *** (1994, Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, John Mahoney, Steve Zahn) – Classic Movie Review 6661

Director Ben Stiller’s 1994 directorial debut Reality Bites is a genial, youth-oriented romantic comedy drama that is pleasant and entertaining even if it is written with perhaps not quite enough reality or bite. Winona Ryder […]

Feb, 08 · in Reviews

Striking Distance ** (1993, Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 6660

Bruce Willis stars in co-writer/ director Rowdy Herrington’s dreary, by-the-numbers 1993 action thriller as a Pittsburg homicide detective called Tom Hardy who is busted down to river rescue cop after his father is killed in the […]

Feb, 07 · in Reviews

Article 99 ** (1992, Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, John Mahoney, Lea Thompson, John C McGinley, Eli Wallach, Kathy Bates) – Classic Movie Review 6659

Director Howard Deutch’s 1992 comedy drama is an overwrought hospital saga, swinging uncertainly and hesitantly between comic satire and soapbox preaching, but with the young Ray Liotta and Kiefer Sutherland trying hard as Dr Richard […]

Feb, 07

The FBI Story ***½ (1959, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 6,658

The 1959 thriller film The FBI Story stars James Stewart as Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Chip Hardesty. The FBI controlled every move and the production had J Edgar Hoover breathing down their neck constantly. […]

Feb, 07

Demons of the Mind ** (1972, Paul Jones, Patrick Magee, Yvonne Mitchell, Robert Hardy, Gillian Hills, Michael Hordern, Shane Briant) – Classic Movie Review 6657

Robert Hardy stars as Zorn, a 19th-century Bavarian baron who keeps his teenaged children Elizabeth and Emil (Gillian Hills, Shane Briant) locked away and drugged for fear that the family insanity is hereditary. The madness is […]

Feb, 07

Delicatessen **** (1991, Dominique Pinon, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Marie-Laure Dougnac) – Classic Movie Review 6656

French writer-directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro’s brilliant 1991 Gothic nightmare Delicatessen stars Dominique Pinon as a Louison, circus clown who takes work with a butcher called Clapet (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), who is chopping people up. Soon the […]

Feb, 07

The Mercy ** (2018, Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis) – Movie Review

Colin Firth is well cast and does well as real-life amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst who competed in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race to try to be the first person to circumnavigate the globe […]

Feb, 06

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