Derek Winnert

Unstoppable **** (2010, Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson, Ethan Suplee, Kevin Dunn, T J Miller) – Classic Movie Review 4006

All aboard for a fantastic, non-stop thrill ride as rail workers Frank and Will (Denzel Washington and Chris Pine) set off in a separate train to chase an unmanned, half-mile-long freight locomotive carrying a cargo […]

Jul, 12 · in Uncategorized

Cecil B DeMented **½ (2000, Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Maggie Gyllenhall) – Classic Movie Review 4005

Writer-director John Waters’s suitably demented 2000 comedy stars Stephen Dorff as guerrilla film director Cecil B DeMented. As usual with Waters, it is set in his home town of Baltimore. DeMented and his band of cinema revolutionaries […]

Jul, 12 · in Uncategorized

House of Games **** (1987, Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Ricky Jay, J T Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 4004

American Pulitzer-prize winning playwright David Mamet makes a clever directorial début with his teasing 1987 thriller House of Games. It stars his then wife Lindsay Crouse as control-freak psychiatrist Margaret Ford, who makes the mistake […]

Jul, 12

Brotherhood of the Wolf [Le Pacte des Loups] **** (2001, Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Emilie Dequenne) – Classic Movie Review 4003

A naturalist, Chevalier Gregoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan), and his Iroquois hunter buddy Mani (Mark Dacascos) are sent to track down a beast killing folk in the 18th-century French countryside. Co-writer/ director Christophe Gans’s […]

Jul, 12

The Musketeer **** (2001, Justin Chambers, Tim Roth, Mena Suvari, Catherine Deneuve, Stephen Rea) – Classic Movie Review 4002

In 17th century Paris, a peasant boy, young D’Artagnan (Max Dolbey), witnesses the death of his father at the hands of the dastardly villain Febre (Tim Roth) and sets out to join the legendary royal guards […]

Jul, 12

The Music Teacher [Le Maître de Musique] **** (1988, José van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter, Sylvie Fennec Patrick Bauchau, Johan Leysen, Marc Schreiber) – Classic Movie Review 4001

Co-writer/ director Gérard Corbiau’s valuable Oscar-nominated Belgian 1988 music drama stars Brussels-born bass-baritone José Van Dam as aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac, who retires from singing to the countryside to coach two young singers, Sophie Maurier (Anne Roussel) and Jean Nilson (Philippe Volter). […]

Jul, 12

Take the Money and Run **** (1969, Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire) – Classic Movie Review 4000

The young Woody Allen’s hectic 1969 first feature as director is a fresh seeming, hilarious delight, with the co-writer and star as inept criminal Virgil Starkwell who cannot even convince bank staff that they are […]

Jul, 11

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