Derek Winnert

Suicide Squad **½ (2016, Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez) – Movie Review

Aha, Suicide Squad begins, Suicide Squad assembles. Channelling Joan Allen’s Pam Landy in the Bourne films, Viola Davis stars as Amanda Waller, the bad-ass boss of a secret government agency, who recruits an anti-hero strike team of incarcerated, Death Row super-villains to execute […]

Aug, 06 · in Uncategorized

The Producers *** (2005, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach, Michael McKean, David Huddleston) – Classic Movie Review 4131

Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick re-create their Broadway stage roles in director Susan Stroman’s entertaining 2005 movie of the hit Broadway and London stage show of the old Mel Brooks film classic, The Producers (1968). Ideally […]

Aug, 05 · in Uncategorized

Witness ***** (1985, Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Josef Sommer, Jan Rubes, Alexander Godunov, Danny Glover) – Classic Movie Review 4130

Director Peter Weir’s tense, exciting and perceptive 1985 thinking person’s thriller stars Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis on their finest form, responding strongly to their roundly written roles as Philadelphia city cop John Book and […]

Aug, 04

The Mosquito Coast **** (1986, Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, River Phoenix) – Classic Movie Review 4129

Director Peter Weir’s 1986 adventure movie stars Harrison Ford, who eagerly grasps the nettle of an unusual role for him as an unsympathetic and dangerously obsessive hero – the eccentric and crazed inventor Allie Fox, who […]

Aug, 04

Moscow on the Hudson *** (1984, Robin Williams, Maria Conchita Alonso, Cleavant Derricks) – Classic Movie Review 4128

Co-writer/ producer/ director Paul Mazursky’s attractive, amusing and enjoyable 1984 character-driven comedy provides a fine showcase for Robin Williams from the interesting time when he was still establishing himself as a movie star and just […]

Aug, 04

Grace of My Heart **** (1996, Illeana Douglas, Matt Dillon, Eric Stoltz, Patsy Kensit, Bruce Davison, John Turturro, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda) – Classic Movie Review 4127

Illeana Douglas (granddaughter of Oscar-winning old-time movie star Melvyn Douglas) gratefully grabs hold of her first star part, a wonderful opportunity that she is fully up to, as a Philadelphia heiress turned Sixties singer/ songwriter. […]

Aug, 04

Goya in Bordeaux [Goya en Burdeos] **** (1999, Franciso Rabal, Dafne Fernandez, Maribel Verdù, José Coronado) – Classic Movie Review 4126

Writer-director Carlos Saura, one of the world’s great film-makers, hauntingly explores the life, loves and work of the artist Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) in this 1999 Spanish biographical drama, Goya in Bordeaux [Goya en Burdeos]. […]

Aug, 04

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