Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Red Eye **** (2005, Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox) – Classic Movie Review 4,327

It’s fun to watch Rachel McAdams fight back against creepy charmer Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy) in Wes Craven’s sweaty-palm 2005 cat-and-mouse Hitchcock-style thriller film Red Eye. Her dad (Brian Cox) is being pinned down by […]

Sep, 09 · in Reviews

Cats & Dogs *** (2001, Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins, Miriam Margolyes, Alexander Pollock, voices Tobey Maguire, Alec Baldwin, Sean Hayes, Susan Sarandon) – Classic Movie Review 4326

There are lots of hilarious moments in director Lawrence Guterman’s 2001 happy family action comedy movie experience that is basically Babe meets Mission: Impossible. Sorry cat lovers! In the war between cats and dogs, our feline […]

Sep, 09 · in Uncategorized

Murder in the First **** (1995, Kevin Bacon, Christian Slater, Gary Oldman, Embeth Davidtz, William H Macy, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brad Dourif, R Lee Ermey, Mia Kirshner) – Classic Movie Review 4325

That nice Kevin Bacon first appeared as a fraternity novice in National Lampoon’s Animal House back in 1978 and throughout the Eighties, greatly entertained us with such frivolities as Footloose. But, somewhere along the line, […]

Sep, 09

Manhattan Murder Mystery **** (1993, Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen, Joy Behar, Ron Rifkin) – Classic Movie Review 4323

Woody Allen wrote the lead role in this hilarious 1993 old-style comedy thriller for his usual on-screen and off-screen partner Mia Farrow. But, after his breakup with Farrow, Allen poignantly turned to his old flame, […]

Sep, 09

The Wolfman ** (2010, Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving) – Classic Movie Review 4324

After his brother is murdered by a werewolf in the woods, haunted Yorkshire nobleman Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) is called back to his family estate by his brother’s fiancée Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt) and is reunited […]

Sep, 09

Gran Torino ****½ (2008, Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley, Ahney Her) – Classic Movie Review 4322

For his first acting role since his 2004 four-Oscar-winning triumph Million Dollar Baby, director Clint Eastwood gives himself a perfectly tailor-made role in 2008 as Polish American Walt Kowalski, a newly widowed old guy in […]

Sep, 09

Youth in Revolt *** (2009, Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Steve Buscemi, Ray Liotta, M Emmet Walsh, Mary Kay Place, Justin Long, Fred Willard, Zach Galifianakis, Rooney Mara) – Classic Movie Review 4321

Ah yes, how to describe this? – a kind of teen romcom with good bad attitudes. Michael Cera is Nick Twisp, the youth in revolt, an alarmingly pale, thin weirdo 16-year-old, who will do just […]

Sep, 09

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