Derek Winnert

Nick of Time *** (1995, Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken) – Classic Movie Review 1629

Director John Badham’s enjoyable 1995 thriller stars Johnny Depp, who profitably forsakes his usual oddball image for a straight part as an average American Joe in this highly improbable, but entertaining thriller that unfolds, unusually, […]

Sep, 03 · in Reviews

The Ninth Gate **** (1999, Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford) – Classic Movie Review 1,628

Co-writer/director Roman Polanski’s shamefully neglected and underrated 1999 horror thriller film The Ninth Gate stars Johnny Depp as Dean Corso, a New York rare book dealer who is hired by the creepy collector of books […]

Sep, 03 · in Reviews

Secret Window *** (2004, Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 1627

Writer-director David Koepp’s erratically amusing 2004 thriller has the right star in Johnny Depp, who puts a gloss of polish on Stephen King’s chiller as Mort Rainey, an author afflicted by a bad hairstyle, writer’s […]

Sep, 02

Arizona Dream *** (1992, Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Jerry Lewis, Lili Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 1626

Co-writer/director Emir Kusturica’s 1992 American drama stars Johnny Depp as Axel Blackmar, a rebellious, naive young drifter tagging fish in New York as a naturalist’s gofer. He is brought back home to Arizona for his uncle’s […]

Sep, 02

The Salton Sea *** (2002, Val Kilmer, Vincent D’Onofrio, Peter Sarsgaard, Adam Goldberg) – Classic Movie Review 1625

Director D J Caruso’s gritty and exciting 2002 all-star thriller stars Val Kilmer as Danny Parker, who adopts a new lowlife identity and goes among drug pushers and crooks to find his beloved wife’s killers. […]

Sep, 02

The Chronicles of Riddick ** (2004, Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore, Thandie Newton, Karl Urban, Alexa Davalos, Linus Roache, Keith David) – Classic Movie Review 1624

Vin Diesel again stars as Riddick in writer-director David N Twohy’s great-looking, extremely expensive and highly ambitious but sadly failed 2004 sequel to 2000’s hit sci-fi thriller Pitch Black, based again on the characters by Jim and Ken […]

Sep, 02

Pitch Black **** (2000, Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Radha Mitchell, Keith David) – Classic Movie Review 1623

A commercial transport spacecraft crashes, stranding the surviving passengers on a sun-scorched barren planet populated only by a dangerously troublesome alien race of predators. The bloodthirsty creatures come out to feast only by night, but unfortunately for the […]

Sep, 02

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