Derek Winnert

Paris, Texas ***** (1984, Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 1770

Director Wim Wenders’s 1984 drama is a dazzling cult classic, with all concerned working on inspired form. The sizzling screenplay by playwright Sam Shepard and Texan writer L M Kit Carson (who did the adaptation) vibrantly captures […]

Oct, 22 · in Reviews

Fury **** (2014, Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman) – Movie Review

Brad Pitt stars as battle-hardened American army sergeant named Wardaddy, who commands a Sherman tank called Fury and her five-man crew. They set out on a do-or-die mission to wipe out as many German SS […]

Oct, 22 · in Reviews

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles *** (1990, Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, Josh Pais) – Classic Movie Review 1769

Cowabunga! Director Steve Barron was first to put the four lean and green hip, pizza-spinning superheroes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen in 1990, following the start of the half-hour ten-season 1987 TV […]

Oct, 18

Black Butler [Kuroshitsuji] *** (2014, Hiro Mizushima, Ayame Gôriki, Yûka) – Movie Review

Directors Kentarô Ohtani and Kei’ichi Sato‘s live-action version of Yana Toboso‘s beloved manga series (first published in 2006) is an enjoyable success, with plenty of bursts of exciting action and a strange and compelling story to tell. […]

Oct, 17

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

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

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

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