Derek Winnert

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles *** (2014, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner) – Movie Review

Fearless reporter April O’Neil and her news cameraman Vern Fenwick must work with the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to save New York City from the diabolical plan of Shredder and his evil Foot Clan. The film benefits […]

Oct, 15 · in Reviews

The Judge *** (2014, Robert Downey Jr, Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Vincent D’Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, Billy Bob Thornton ) – Movie Review

Robert Downey Jr stars as big city lawyer Hank Palmer, who returns to his childhood home for the funeral of his mother. He is reunited with his two brothers (Vincent D’Onofrio, Jeremy Strong) and his father, […]

Oct, 15 · in Reviews

Accident ***** (1967, Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael York, Jacqueline Sassard) – Classic Movie Review 1,768

Dirk Bogarde is on his finest form, ideally cast as an Oxford University professor having a mid-life crisis, in Joseph Losey’s 1967 British drama film Accident. Filmed in the summer of 1966 and released in […]

Oct, 14

Raising Arizona **** (1987, Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 1767

Hooray for the Coen Brothers’ second movie, providing a dazzling follow-up to their stunning film noir debut with Blood Simple in 1984. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter star as a petty crook H.I. McDonnough (‘Hi’) […]

Oct, 13

The Hudsucker Proxy **** (1994, Tim Robbins, Paul Newman, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 1766

The Coen Brothers’ inspired 1994 satirical screwball comedy about big business and a corporate stock scam is a stunning-looking retro art object, with bravura visuals, witty dialogue, a great score by Carter Burwell and a […]

Oct, 13

The Man Who Wasn’t There **** (2001, Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, James Gandolfini) – Classic Movie Review 1765

The tenth movie from the Coen Brothers in 2001 sees them returning to the Forties-style film-noir terrain of their debut film, Blood Simple, in a clever, atmospheric, compellingly twisting tale of infidelity, blackmail and death. Billy […]

Oct, 12

The Ladykillers ** (2004, Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Irma P. Hall) – Classic Movie Review 1764

Oh, no! In 2004 America’s the Coen Brothers have remade our menacingly funny 1955 British gem of a movie, with Tom Hanks miscast and struggling in an over-calculated character turn as Professor G H Dorr, […]

Oct, 12

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