Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Bad Company **** (1972, Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis, David Huddleston, John Savage, Jerry Houser, Geoffrey Lewis, Ed Lauter) – Classic Movie Review 4160

The 22-year-old Jeff Bridges turns in a magnetic performance as Jake Rumsey in the 1972 Western film Bad Company. The young, just 22-year-old Jeff Bridges turns in a particularly magnetic performance as Jake Rumsey, an […]

Aug, 12 · in Reviews

Pete’s Dragon ***½ (2016, Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley, Wes Bentley, Karl Urban, Oona Laurence) – Movie Review

Disney’s ecologically minded and morally minded remake of its 1977 classic Pete’s Dragon is an odd little film but it is sweet and I liked it. Though warm, friendly, down-home and old fashioned Americana, it is quite […]

Aug, 12 · in Reviews

Bad Boys II *** (2004, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Mollà, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle, Michael Shannon, Joe Pantoliano, Jon Seda) – Classic Movie Review 4159

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence play bad cop, bad cop on the trail of evil Cuban drug lord ‘Johnny’ Tapia (Jordi Mollà) in director Michael Bay’s wisecracking, brutal, wayward but incredibly exciting 2004 action adventure sequel […]

Aug, 12

Bad Boys ** (1995, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Téa Leoni, Tchéky Karyo, Theresa Randle, Marg Helgenberger, Joe Pantoliano, Lisa Boyle) – Classic Movie Review 4158

Director Michael Bay’s slick, glossy, violent, formulaic 1995 comedy action thriller has as many bodies as jokes, and more flashy pretty pictures of art deco-ed Miami than believable plot moments. It is an expensive, cynical, […]

Aug, 12

Tous les Matins du Monde [All the Mornings of the World] ***** (1991, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Guillaume Dépardieu, Anne Brochet, Carole Richert, Michel Bouquet, Caroline Sihol, Myriam Boyer, Jean-Claude Dreyfus) – Classic Movie Review 4157

Co-writer/ director Alain Corneau’s magical, gorgeous-looking, and utterly haunting 1991 French film is the tale of 17th-century love, betrayal and music (superbly arranged and played by Jordi Savall), with Depardieu père et fils – Gérard […]

Aug, 11

Stigmata *** (1999, Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long) – Classic Movie Review 4156

Something wicked this way comes. Vatican official Jonathan Pryce sends troubled scientist-priest Gabriel Byrne to Pittsburgh to investigate the case of a young hairdresser (Patricia Arquette), who suffers agonising paranormal attacks, causing her to bleed […]

Aug, 11

The Wave [Bølgen] **** (2015, Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro) – Movie Review

A canny geologist (Kristoffer Joner), his tourist hotel receptionist wife (Ane Dahl Torp) and their teenage son (Jonas Hoff Oftebro) and young daughter are caught in the thick of it when the father discovers that the mountain pass […]

Aug, 11

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