Derek Winnert

Taxi *** (1998, Sami Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Marion Cotillard) – Classic Movie Review 1384

Sami Naceri and Frédéric Diefenthal star as Marseilles cabbie Daniel and his pal Emilien the cop, who get involved in an often hilarious, fast-paced, high-energy French all-action crime comedy adventure. In the daft plot, Daniel is […]

Jul, 02 · in Reviews

Bob le Flambeur ***** (1955, dir Jean-Pierre Melville) Classic Movie Review 1390

Both co-writer/director Jean-Pierre Melville and star Roger Duchesne knew the underworld at first hand, and it clearly shows here in their classic hardboiled 1955 French crime thriller, which provided inspiration for the French New Wave […]

Jul, 02 · in Reviews

The Good Thief *** (2002, Nick Nolte) – Classic Movie Review 1389

Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 2002 crime thriller stars Nick Nolte as a world-weary, drug-addicted, ageing gambler-thief embroiled in one last heist on a casino on the French Riviera. Problems arise when a young hooker, femme fatale Anne […]

Jul, 02

Taxi Driver ***** (1976, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster) – Classic Movie Review 1387

Director Martin Scorsese’s 1976 ultra-realistic crime/vigilante thriller is both incredibly bleak and searing. It’s dazzlingly made by a hot and hungry Scorsese and spectacularly acted by its star Robert De Niro in one of his most […]

Jul, 02

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice **** (1969,Robert Culp, Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 1388

Co-writer/director Paul Mazursky’s teasing and titillating 1969 Swinging Sixties wife-and-husband-swapping comedy is extremely entertaining and perceptive, and was deservedly extremely popular in its day. It captures the spirit of the time when America’s moral climate was […]

Jul, 02

The Stepford Wives **** (1974, Katharine Ross, Patrick O’Neal, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman) – Classic Movie Review 1383

Adapted for the screen by expert William Goldman, Ira Levin’s chilling thriller novel emerges smoothed out and tamed down in British director Bryan Forbes’s 1974 film. But it’s still an excellent, richly satisfying movie full of […]

Jul, 01

The Stepford Wives ** (2004, Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken) – Classic Movie Review 1382

Nicole Kidman looks like she’d prefer to be somewhere else during director Frank Oz’s cheesy 2004 black comedy remake of the 1974 chiller about the too-perfect wives of a New England village. The first half hour […]

Jul, 01

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