Derek Winnert

Hardcore **** (1979, George C Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley) – Classic Movie Review 4149

Writer-director Paul Schrader takes another walk on the wild side with this 1979 thriller portrait of a conservative middle America businessman called Jake Van Dorn (George C Scott) looking for his runaway teenage daughter whom […]

Aug, 09 · in Reviews

London Kills Me **½ (1991, Justin Chadwick, Steven Mackintosh, Emer McCourt, Roshan Seth, Fiona Shaw, Brad Dourif, Tony Hargarth, Naveen Andrews, Stevan Rimkus) – Classic Movie Review 4148

Screeen-writer/ director Hanif Kureishi’s 1991 drama stars Justin Chadwick as a poverty-stricken, homeless, shoeless youth of 20 called Clint Eastwood, who is unable to find a job but wants to get of London’s drug world by taking a job as […]

Aug, 09 · in Reviews

Hidden Agenda **** (1990, Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Mai Zetterling, Jim Norton) – Classic Movie Review 4,147

Ken Loach’s distinguished, controversial 1990 political thriller Hidden Agenda stars Brian Cox as a tough police detective investigating the murder of an American human rights lawyer in Belfast, with the help of the man’s girlfriend […]

Aug, 09

Mississippi Burning **** (1988, Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R Lee Ermey) – Classic Movie Review 4,146

The burning 1988 thriller film Mississippi Burning stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as FBI agents investigating suspected Ku Klux Klan murders of three young civil rights activists in the American Deep South in 1964. […]

Aug, 09

Fat City **** (1972, Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell) – Classic Movie Review 4145

Director John Huston’s honest and touching 1972 story of loneliness and failure is written by Leonard Gardner and based on his 1970 novel. It provides ideal roles for Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges, in their excellent […]

Aug, 08

Child’s Play ***½ (1988, Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff) – Classic Movie Review 4144

Co-writer/ director Tom Holland’s disturbing, highly effective 1988 fantasy horror movie Child’s Play sees Brad Dourif as the dying serial killer Charles Lee Ray who gives his soul to Chucky the doll, a seemingly innocent […]

Aug, 08

Dune **** (1984, Kyle MacLachlan, Kenneth McMillan, Francesca Annis, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Freddie Jones, Richard Jordan, Jack Nance, Sian Phillips, Sting, Patrick Stewart, Dean Stockwell, Max von Sydow) – Classic Movie Review 4,143

David Lynch’s career unfairly took a nose-dive with the box-office failure of his spectacular, visually thrilling 1984 epic film of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune. Unfairly scorned, Lynch’s Dune is more of an exciting near-triumph […]

Aug, 08

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