Derek Winnert

The Morning After **½ (1986, Jane Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Raul Julia) – Classic Movie Review 2044

‘Last night she drank to forget. Today she woke up to a murder. Is he her last hope or the last man she should trust? The Morning After …can be murder”. Director Sidney Lumet’s potboiling […]

Jan, 04 · in Reviews

Starman ****½ (1984, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel) – Classic Movie Review 2043

Director John Carpenter delivers a stupendous, electrifying 1984 adult sci-fi fairy tale that’s tense, touching and thrilling throughout. Bruce A Evans, Raynold Gideon and Dean Reisner’s screenplay follows the story of the titular alien Starman, […]

Jan, 03 · in Reviews

French Connection II **** (1975, Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson) – Classic Movie Review 2,041

John Frankenheimer’s welcome 1975 thriller film French Connection II is not quite such a spectacularly brilliant movie as the original, but as a sequel to one, it’s first class. Gene Hackman brilliantly reprises his Oscar-winning […]

Jan, 03

The French Connection ***** (1971, Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi) – Classic Movie Review 2,040

William Friedkin’s legendary five-Oscar-winning 1971 movie The French Connection is one of the all-time great action thrillers, with a star-making, Oscar-winning turn by Gene Hackman. Director William Friedkin’s legendary multi-Oscar-winning 1971 movie The French Connection […]

Jan, 03

Jagged Edge **** (1985, Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia) – Classic Movie Review 2039

Director Richard Marquand’s 1985 thriller hit a jagged edge of the public nerve and the box-office jackpot. On a $15million budget, it took back more than $40million in the US plus £2,450,000 in the UK. The […]

Jan, 02

Jade ** (1995, David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri) – Classic Movie Review 2038

Director William Friedkin’s trashy 1995 thriller stars David Caruso, whose bright, intense TV talent is over-exposed here on the big screen, playing David Corelli, a bright assistant district attorney investigating a nasty hatchet killing among San […]

Jan, 02

Ghost Ship ** (2002, Gabriel Byrne, Julianna Margulies, Ron Eldard) – Classic Movie Review 2037

There’s some fun to be had from director Steve Beck’s soggy, cheap-looking 2002 B-movie horror thriller in which a salvage crew finds a long-lost 1962 ghost ship in the Bering Sea. They prepare to tow back […]

Jan, 02

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