Derek Winnert

Bounce (2000, Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow) – Classic Film Review 1091

Writer-director Don Roos’s likeable 2000 romantic drama stars Ben Affleck as Buddy, a businessman waiting for his delayed aircraft at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. At the last minute he switches plane tickets with fellow passenger Greg […]

Apr, 14 · in Reviews

The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal) – Classic Film Review 1086

In co-writer/producer/director Roland Emmerich’s 2004 fantasy thriller, it seems that the weather’s suddenly got much, much worse and a new Ice Age is upon us. ‘It’s incredible!’ says weather expert Professor Dennis Quaid. And incredible’s […]

Apr, 14 · in Reviews

Panic ***½ (2000, William H Macy, Neve Campbell, John Ritter, Donald Sutherland, Tracey Ullman) – Classic Movie Review 1085

Writer-director Henry Bromell’s low-budget ($1 million) 2000 movie stars William H Macy as mournful married middle-aged hit-man Alex, who gets into a panic when he falls for 20something hair-stylist Sarah (Neve Campbell). He goes into […]

Apr, 14

Flight of the Phoenix ** (2004, Dennis Quaid, Miranda Otto, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese, Miranda Otto, Hugh Laurie) – Classic Movie Review 1087

Director John Moore’s 2004 movie is a reasonably entertaining disaster-survival movie remake of the classic 1965 adventure thriller The Flight of the Phoenix, in which an aircraft is downed in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in a sandstorm. […]

Apr, 14

The Flight of the Phoenix **** (1965, James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Christian Marquand, Dan Duryea, George Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 1088

Producer/director Robert Aldrich’s 1965 film The Flight of the Phoenix finds him on safe ground with a highly enjoyable and satisfying, character-driven disaster-survival movie, in which an aircraft is downed when a sudden sandstorm shuts […]

Apr, 13

House on Haunted Hill *** (1958, Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Julie Mitchum, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook Jnr) – Classic Movie Review 1,090

William Castle’s fondly regarded 1958 black and white horror movie House on Haunted Hill stars Vincent Price as an eccentric millionaire who invites five people for a haunted house party. Whoever spends the whole night there […]

Apr, 13

House on Haunted Hill *** (1999, Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Chris Kattan, Peter Gallagher, Bridgette Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 1089

As Steven H Price, Geoffrey Rush does a good, cheeky impersonation of Vincent Price in this welcome but iffy and not always sufficiently amusing 1999 reworking of the old 1958 William Castle horror movie. Price played […]

Apr, 13

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