Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

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 · in Uncategorized

Morgan ** (2016, Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rose Leslie, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Paul Giamatti) – Movie Review

Kate Mara stars as corporate risk-management consultant Lee Weathers, who arrives at some dark old house in the country where Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy), an artificially created humanoid being has just stabbed a doctor (Jennifer Jason Leigh) in […]

Sep, 02 · in Uncategorized

Last Holiday *** (2006, Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Gérard Depardieu, Giancarlo Esposito, Alicia Witt, Jane Adams) – Classic Movie Review 4285

Queen Latifah stars as Georgia Byrd in an amusing and enjoyable remake of the 1950 British semi-classic Last Holiday with Alec Guinness, in a project intended for John Candy but shelved on his death. Queen Latifah plays […]

Sep, 02

The Matador **** (2005, Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Adam Scott) – Classic Movie Review 4284

Pierce Brosnan scores a hit as a world-weary hit-man, who drags failed salesman Greg Kinnear into his crazy way of life in Mexico. Much later, a desperate Brosnan turns up at Kinnear’s home to seek […]

Sep, 02

The Skeleton Key ** (2005, Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, John Hurt, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Joy Bryant ) – Classic Movie Review 4283

Kate Hudson stars in the 2005 horror movie The Skeleton Key as Caroline Ellis, who takes a job as live-in carer at the Louisiana plantation house of elderly Violet Devereaux (Gena Rowlands), looking after her […]

Sep, 01

Rachel, Rachel **** (1968, Joanne Woodward, Estelle Parsons, James Olson, Kate Harrington) – Classic Movie Review 4280

Producer Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward make an excellent film team as the director and star of this sensitive 1968 movie based on the novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence. In […]

Sep, 01

The Three Faces of Eve **** (1957, Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J Cobb) – Classic Movie Review 4279

Joanne Woodward won the 1958 Best Actress Oscar (and Golden Globe) as a real-life housewife from Georgia suffering from a rare multiple personality disorder, in the 1957 drama film The Three Faces of Eve. Joanne […]

Sep, 01

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