Derek Winnert

Tristan + Isolde **** (2006, James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell) – Classic Movie Review 1431

James Franco stars as a dreamy Tristan and Sophia Myles as his feisty royal  lover in director Kevin Reynolds’s 2006 epic romantic drama film based on the medieval romantic legend set in the Dark Ages in […]

Jul, 15 · in Articles

City by the Sea ** (2002, Robert De Niro, James Franco, Frances McDormand) – Classic Movie Review 1430

Director Michael Caton-Jones’s 2002 character-driven thriller is interesting and sometimes involving, but often surprisingly shaky. Ken Hixon writes the slightly struggling screenplay from an article, Mark of a Murderer by Mike McAlary. Well it’s more […]

Jul, 15 · in Reviews

The Yards **** (2000, Mark Wahlberg, Joaquin Phoenix, Charlize Theron, James Caan) – Classic Movie Review 1429

Mark Wahlberg stars as ex-con Leo Handler who is freed from jail and finds himself drawn into the business of renovating New York’s subway cars by his aunt Kitty Olchin (Faye Dunaway)’s new husband, Frank […]

Jul, 14

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes *** (2014, Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Kodi Smit-McPhee) – Movie Review

It’s 2026 and human civilisation has collapsed. A band of human survivors genetically immune to the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier is living in a guarded tower within the ruined city of San Francisco. […]

Jul, 14

Return to Me *** (2000, David Duchovny, Minnie Driver) – Classic Movie Review 1428

David Duchovny and Joely Richardson star as happily married couple Bob and Elizabeth Rueland, who both work at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo. But then architect Duchovny’s zoologist wife Richardson dies suddenly in a car accident and waitress Grace […]

Jul, 14

Slap Shot **** (1977, Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean) – Classic Movie Review 1427

Director George Roy Hill’s funny, fast and furious 1977 ice hockey comedy drama stars Paul Newman, who is on top form as Reggie Dunlop, an ageing player-coach sports star who plays dirty to win. His struggling Charlestown […]

Jul, 13

The Silver Chalice * (1954, Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Virginia Mayo) – Bad Movie 8

Paul Newman took out a newspaper ad in America to ask people not to watch this biblical epic, his first film, in which he plays Basil, the Greek artisan craftsman ordered by St Luke to […]

Jul, 13

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