Derek Winnert

Crash **** (2004, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Thandie Newton, Matt Dillon) – Classic Movie Review 1749

  Co-writer/director Paul Haggis’s serious-minded, low-budget, triple Oscar-winning 2004 movie about race, ethnicity and religion got great reviews and kicked up a storm at the box office. On a $6,500,000 cost, it took $55million in US […]

Oct, 06 · in Reviews

Crash *** (1996, James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas) – Classic Movie Review 1748

  Writer-director David Cronenberg’s uniquely disturbing 1996 film of J G Ballard’s probably unfilmable parable novel about people into road crashes for sexual kicks caused a furore in Britain. The right-wing forces of censorship in politics […]

Oct, 06 · in Reviews

Spider **** (2002, Ralph Fiennes, Lynn Redgrave, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville) – Classic Movie Review 1747

Ralph Fiennes is brilliant as the mentally ill Dennis Clegg, nicknamed ‘Spider’ by his mother (Miranda Richardson). Now in his thirties, he is released after 20 years in a clinic to Lynn Redgrave’s depressingly seedy London boarding […]

Oct, 06

The Cave *** (2005, Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Lena Headey, Piper Perabo) – Classic Movie Review 1746

  Divers stranded in in an underwater cave network confront scary, bloodthirsty creatures in director Bruce Hunt’s intense and gory 2005 low-budget chiller. Dr Nicolai (Marcel Iures)’s scientific team are exploring the legend of the monster-fighting Knights Templar in […]

Oct, 06

Mighty Joe Young *** (1949, Terry Moore, Ben Johnson, Robert Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 1745

In director Ernest B Schoedsack and producer Merian C Cooper’s 1949 fantasy adventure, Mighty Joe Young the gorilla is snatched from the African jungle to work in a Hollywood nightclub, holding up a piano. At […]

Oct, 05

Mighty Joe Young *** (1998, Bill Paxton, Charlize Theron) – Classic Movie Review 1744

Poor old gorilla! – this time he’s snatched from the jungle to live in a California zoo, run by kindly keeper David Paymer. He goes rampaging in LA a bit – causing havoc on Hollywood […]

Oct, 05

Orange County *** (2002, Colin Hanks, Jack Black, Schuyler Fisk) – Classic Movie Review 1743

Colin Hanks (son of Tom) proves a chip off the old block as an expert comedy performer, playing Shaun Brumder, a California high school surfer kid who dreams of going to Stanford University to quit […]

Oct, 04

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