Derek Winnert

Cold Creek Manor * (2003, Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Juliette Lewis, Kristen Stewart) – Bad Movie 5

Bickering middle-aged married couple Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone quit the Manhattan rat race and buy a creaky old manor house in nice upstate New York, relocating there with their two kids (Kristen Stewart, Ryan […]

Apr, 29 · in Reviews

Brick Mansions **½ (2014, Paul Walker, David Belle) – Movie Review

Brick Mansions is dedicated ‘In loving memory of Paul Walker’ before the end credits. That’s cause for lots of tears and heartache among his zillions of fans. It would be great to report that this, his […]

Apr, 29 · in Reviews

Three Days of the Condor ***** (1975, Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max Von Sydow, Cliff Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 1,154

Sydney Pollack’s sizzling 1975 suspense classic thriller film Three Days of the Condor stars Robert Redford as bookish CIA researcher who comes back from lunch one day to discover his co-workers murdered. Director Sydney Pollack’s sizzling […]

Apr, 28

Klute ***** (1971, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Rita Gam, Nathan George, Dorothy Tristan, Jean Stapleton) – Classic Movie Review 1153

Producer-director Alan J Pakula’s dazzling and brilliantly acted classic 1971 thriller is a real mesmerising humdinger. It’s the first film of Pakula’s unofficial political paranoia trilogy that continued triumphantly with The Parallax View (1974) and […]

Apr, 28

The Parallax View ***** (1974, Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Hume Cronyn, Walter McGinn, Anthony Zerbe, Kenneth Mars) – Classic Movie Review 1152

Alan J Pakula’s 1974 political paranoia conspiracy thriller film The Parallax View is brilliantly tense, taut and exciting. It’s a scorching nail-biter. Warren Beatty stars as an ambitious reporter who investigates a presidential candidate’s murder.  […]

Apr, 27

Cupcakes **** (2013, Anat Waxman, Ofer Shechter) – Movie Review

Eytan Fox’s nostalgia-minded film Cupcakes is a gloriously cute, camp and charming comedy that takes a Eurovision-style song contest as its starting point and delivers lots of laughs, one or two tears, some very daft […]

Apr, 27

The East **** (2013, Brit Marling, Patricia Clarkson, Ellen Page, Alexander Skarsgård, Julia Ormond, Jason Ritter, Toby Kebbell) – Movie Review

Rare and unusual, Zal Batmanglij’s 2013 film The East is a particularly engrossing, suspenseful and intelligent corporate espionage thriller. Brit Marling plays Sarah, a morally troubled agent for a private intelligence company who send her to infiltrate […]

Apr, 27

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