Derek Winnert

Flashdance *** (1983, Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala) – Classic Movie Review 2030

Director Adrian Lyne’s quintessential 1983 musical drama Flashdance stars Jennifer Beals as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel worker welder by day and by night a flashy exotic dancer who wants to get into ballet school […]

Jan, 02 · in Reviews

Sliver *** (1993, Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger) – Classic Movie Review 2029

Sharon Stone relishes enjoying her top star billing and salary ($2.5million) for director Phillip Noyce sleek and sexy if desperately tacky 1993 thriller in which she’s new girl in the title New York apartment block, where […]

Jan, 01 · in Reviews

Total Recall ****½ (1990, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside) – Classic Movie Review 2028

Both director Paul Verhoeven and his star Arnold Schwarzenegger are on or very near their best form for this exhilarating 1990 science-fiction thriller, a clever mix of bright ideas, involving plot, witty satire and violent […]

Jan, 01

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death ** (2014, Phoebe Fox, Jeremy Irvine, Helen McCrory) – Movie Review

It’s now 40 years after the events of 2012’s original with the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, and World War Two London is being bombed by the Germans in the Blitz. So a group of […]

Dec, 31

The Theory of Everything ***** (2014, Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Maxine Peake, Tom Prior) – Movie Review

Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones give superb, award-worthy performances as the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane in director James Marsh’s engrossing, emotionally wrenching film of their relationship. Redmayne deservedly triumphed by winning Best Actor at […]

Dec, 31

Birdman **** (2014, Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts) – Movie Review

Former Batman Michael Keaton bravely, boldly and extremely well plays Riggan Thomson, a well-known actor who once played an iconic movie superhero called The Birdman. Now washed-up after turning down a fourth instalment of the Birdman […]

Dec, 31

The Gambler *** (1997, Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West, Luise Rainer) – Classic Movie Review 2027

Director Károly Makk’s 1997 film adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic novella The Gambler stars Michael Gambon as the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jodhi May, Polly Walker and Dominic West as the obsessively addicted gambler Alexei. Its fresh take […]

Dec, 31

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