Derek Winnert

Pickup on South Street ***** (1953, Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter) – Classic Movie Review 2069

Writer-director Samuel Fuller’s brutal 1953 hard-boiled Cold War spy film noir thriller is a little masterpiece of its kind, one of the cult film-maker’s great noir classics. Richard Widmark stars at his arrogant, menacing snarling […]

Jan, 11 · in Uncategorized

Wall Street ***** (1987, Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Martin Sheen, Terence Stamp) – Classic Movie Review 2068

Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s 1987 financial drama summons up the get-rich-quick 80s era better than most other movies and added a couple of indelible phrases into the language: ‘greed is good’ and ‘lunch is for wimps’. Though the […]

Jan, 10 · in Uncategorized

Kiss of Death ** (1995, David Caruso, Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson, Helen Hunt, Stanley Tucci) – Classic Movie Review 2067

David Caruso stars as ex-con Jimmy Kilmartin who battles Nicolas Cage’s psychotic mobster Little Junior Brown in a basic, nastily violent crime thriller flick that’s no more than a cheesy B-movie. It’s flashy and atmospheric, but […]

Jan, 10

Kiss of Death ***** (1947, Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark) – Classic Movie Review 2066

The poster may feature Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy and Coleen Gray, but director Henry Hathaway’s tough and gritty vintage 1947 thriller Kiss of Death provides a brilliant showcase for the 33-year-old Richard Widmark, who was […]

Jan, 10

Kramer vs Kramer ***** (1979, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 2,065

Robert Benton won Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for the 1979 American legal drama film Kramer vs Kramer, starring Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Justin Henry. Writer-director Robert Benton hones this four-hankie, five-Oscar-winning tearjerker tale of a tug-of-love between workaholic advertising executive Ted […]

Jan, 10

Rain Man ***** (1988, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino) – Classic Movie Review 2064

Director Barry Levinson’s four Oscar-winning 1988 drama is a triumph, winning some of the most important of the 1989 Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. It also won the […]

Jan, 10

Born on the Fourth of July ***** (1989, Tom Cruise, Raymond J Barry, Caroline Kava) – Classic Movie Review 2063

Director Oliver Stone’s double Oscar-winning 1989 anti-war movie provides Tom Cruise with indisputably one of his best-ever roles as all-American boy Ron Kovic who was paralysed in the Vietnam War and returns to America to find […]

Jan, 09

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