Derek Winnert

Town & Country ** (2001, Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Nastassja Kinski, Andie MacDowell) – Classic Movie Review 1208

Warren Beatty stars as well-known New York architect Porter Stoddard, whose marriage to his wife Ellie (Diane Keaton) is sent into crisis when he goes off with every woman in Manhattan, including his longtime old […]

May, 12 · in Reviews

The Towering Inferno ***** (1974, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Wagner, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 1207

A blaze breaks out in the Glass Tower, a state-of-the-art San Francisco high-rise building during the glitzy opening ceremony attended by a host of city celebrities, in director John Guillermin‘s terrifyingly nail-biting 1974 skyscraper-on-fire movie The […]

May, 12 · in Reviews

Toy Story 2 ***** (1999, voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles) – Classic Movie Review 1206

The old-style toy cowboy Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) is back in director John Lasseter’s eagerly awaited Pixar/Disney 1999 sequel to the 1995 hit Toy Story. It became Britain’s biggest box-office success in 2000. This time, […]

May, 12

Toy Story ***** (1995, voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles) – Classic Movie Review 1205

Director John Lasseter’s inspired 1995 Pixar/Disney release is one of the happiest, most magical animated movies of all time as well as the first feature-length computer-animated film. Tom Hanks provides the voice of old-time cowboy […]

May, 12

Eden Lake **** (2008, Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Jack O’Connell, Thomas Turgoose) – Classic Movie Review 1204

Writer-director James Watkins’s gruesome, realistic and disturbing British 2008 horror thriller stars Kelly Reilly and Michael Fassbender as nursery teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve who quit town for a romantic weekend. Steve has picked […]

May, 11

Frailty **** (2001, Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matthew O’Leary, Jeremy Sumpter) – Classic Movie Review 1195

Director Bill Paxton’s twisty, sweaty-palm 2001 psychological horror thriller Frailty is extraordinary. Matthew McConaughey stars as Fenton Meiks, who walks into the Dallas, Texas, office of FBI agent Wesley Doyle (Powers Boothe) one night and […]

May, 10

U-571 ***½ (2000, Matthew McConaughey, Harvey Keitel, Bill Paxton) – Classic Movie Review 1196

Co-writer/director Jonathan Mostow’s 2000 release is a controversial, but exciting, supposedly real-life World War Two submarine action adventure set in 1942, in which a German submarine is boarded by disguised United States Navy submariners seeking to capture […]

May, 10

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