Derek Winnert

Seven Pounds **** (2008, Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Barry Pepper, Elpidia Carrillo) – Classic Movie Review 4622

Will Smith plays Ben Thomas, a tax investigator – or actually does he? – in this beautifully crafted, luxurious 2008 epic weepie from Italian romantic expert Gabriele Muccino, the director of Smith’s 2006 hit The […]

Nov, 09 · in Uncategorized

The Spirit *** (2008, Gabriel Macht, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Paz Vega, Jaime King) – Classic Movie Review 4621

The mastermind behind Sin City and 300, director Frank Miller, lavishly splashes his incredible, eye-catching visual style all over this astonishing 2008 comic book movie, based on the legendary comic book series created by Will […]

Nov, 09 · in Uncategorized

Duplicity *** (2009, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti) – Classic Movie Review 4620

After appearing together in 2004’s Closer, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts are reunited for writer-director Tony Gilroy’s entertaining 2009 romantic caper thriller as a pair of former spies for MI6 and the CIA. They fell […]

Nov, 09

Ali **** (2001, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Mario van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright) – Classic Movie Review 4619

Best Actor Oscar-nominated Will Smith gives a knockout turn as legendary fighter Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali in co-writer/ director Michael Mann’s punchy, imaginative, and intelligent 2001 epic biopic of the world’s best-known and best-loved boxer. […]

Nov, 09

Three Kings **** (1999, George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze) – Classic Movie Review 4618

Writer-director David O Russell’s brilliant American satirical black comedy anti-war movie is based on a story by John Ridley. George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube and Spike Jonze star as adventurous American soldiers during the 1991 Iraqi uprising against Saddam Hussein, who […]

Nov, 09

The Fighter ***½ (2010, Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Yeo) – Classic Movie Review 4617

Boxing movies are a dime a dozen – and there have of course been great ones, from Champion and Rocky to Raging Bull and more recently Ali, Million Dollar Baby and Cinderella Man. Director David O […]

Nov, 08

Dinner for Schmucks * (2010, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Stephanie Szostak, Zach Galifianakis, Jemaine Clement, Lucy Punch, Bruce Greenwood, David Walliams, Ron Livingston) – Classic Movie Review 4616

A set of ill-judged performances ruins director Jay Roach’s all-too-broad, vaguely offensive 2010 comedy, with the main star Steve Carell’s awkward turn as a dumb schmuck being especially embarrassing, though the more appealing Paul Rudd […]

Nov, 08

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