Derek Winnert

The Rock **** (1996, Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn, John C McGinley, Vanessa Marcil) – Classic Movie Review 2726

Everybody just loved The Rock. The cheeky 1996 action thriller about a threatened nerve gas attack on San Francisco stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris and is directed by Michael Bay, for producers […]

Jul, 21 · in Reviews

Leaving Las Vegas **** (1995, Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands) – Classic Movie Review 2,725

Nicolas Cage won the Best Actor Oscar as a suicidal alcoholic who decides to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death, in the 1995 drama film Leaving Las Vegas. Writer-director Mike Figgis’s 1995 drama film Leaving Las […]

Jul, 21 · in Reviews

Green Street [Green Street Hooligans] *** (2005, Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani ) – Classic Movie Review 2724

Writer-director Lexi Alexander 2005 British-American independent sport and crime drama tackles the issue of football hooliganism. Elijah Wood stars as American journalism major Matt Buckner, who is expelled from Harvard University after cocaine is discovered […]

Jul, 21

Moonstruck ***** (1987, Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Danny Aiello, Vincent Gardenia, Feodor Chaliapin Jr, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 2,724

Dean Martin warbles ‘When the moon hits your eye like a great pizza pie, that’s amore,’ over the opening titles and then we are off on producer-director Norman Jewison’s wonderfully warm, deliciously romantic 1987 hit […]

Jul, 20

Twin Town * (1997, Rhys Ifans, Llyr Evans, Dougray Scott, William Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 2723

Real-life brothers Rhys Ifans and Llyr Evans star as drug-taking, car thieving slacker twins Jeremy and Julian Lewis in co-writer/director Keith Allen’s obnoxious 1997 Welsh black comedy, set in Swansea. The twins embark on a […]

Jul, 20

Death Wish *** (1974, Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia) – Classic Movie Review 2722

British director Michael Winner’s slick and gritty but unpleasant 1974 vigilante revenge thriller Death Wish finds Charles Bronson in his most famous performance as the initially nice New York City architect Paul Kersey. But he […]

Jul, 19

Vivacious Lady **** (1938, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Beulah Bondi, James Ellison) – Classic Movie Review 2709

George Stevens’s expert and delightful 1938 romantic comedy film Vivacious Lady pairs perfectly cast James Stewart and Ginger Rogers as a conservative professor and the showgirl he impulsively marries. Producer-director George Stevens’s expert and delightful […]

Jul, 19

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