Derek Winnert

Reign of Fire (2002, Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey) – Classic Film Review 1201

Director Rob Bowman’s fun but flawed 2002 post-apocalyptic action fantasy film stars Christian Bale as the leader of a motley band of survivors living in a castle in Northumberland, England, in the year 2020 who attempt […]

May, 10 · in Reviews

EDtv *** (1999, Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Ellen Degeneres, Martin Landau, Jenna Elfman, Sally Kirkland, Rob Reiner, Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Hurley, Adam Goldberg) – Classic Movie Review 1197

Would you like to be filmed waking up in bed on live TV? That’s exactly what happens to Matthew McConaughey as the dazed and confused Ed, an unambitious video store clerk who is plucked from […]

May, 10 · in Reviews

Amistad **** (1997, Djimon Hounsou, Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Matthew McConaughey, David Paymer, Pete Postlethwaite, Stellan Skarsgård) – Classic Movie Review 1198

Anthony Hopkins gives as grandstanding turn as former US President John Quincy Adams in this true-life tale of the cargo of newly captured Mende African slaves aboard the Spanish ship La Amistad, which ran into […]

May, 10

The Newton Boys (1998, Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich) – Classic Film Review 1199

The real-life story of 1920s Uvalde, Texas bank-robbing brothers (Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, Skeet Ulrich, Vincent D’Onofrio) who knock over more than 80 banks across the US and into Canada, where their attempt to rob […]

May, 10

Swann (1996, Miranda Richardson, Brenda Fricker) – Classic Film Review 1200

Director Anna Benson Gyles‘s 1996 literary heart-warmer with intelligence and soul provides a lovely acting showcase for talented Miranda Richardson and Brenda Fricker. Richardson plays a hit author Sarah Maloney, who is asked to write the […]

May, 10

City of God [Cidade de Deus] ***** (2002, Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino, Alice Braga, Seu Jorge) – Classic Movie Review 1194

Director Fernando Meirelles’s 2002 classic is an extreme but absolutely brilliant and utterly nerve-wracking Brazilian thriller, in which two Rio boys, brought up together in the Sixties, fight it out on different sides of the […]

May, 09

Blow *** (2001, Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ray Liotta, Rachel Griffiths, Franka Potente, Paul Reubens) – Classic Film Review 1193

Johnny Depp invariably boldly goes where few other stars would dream of, and usually it pays off handsomely. But this time back in 2001 he comes a bit of a cropper in this supposedly true, […]

May, 09

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