Derek Winnert

The Art of War *** (2000, Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Donald Sutherland, Maury Chaykin) – Classic Movie Review 1076

Director Christian Duguay’s slick and impressively preposterous 2000 thriller stars Wesley Snipes as Neil Shaw, an undercover agent for the United Nations dirty tricks squad. Shaw is set up as the patsy after the Chinese […]

Apr, 12 · in Reviews

Harold and Maude ***** (1971, Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles) – Classic Movie Review 1,077

Hal Ashby’s 1971 adorable oddball black comedy film Harold and Maude has deservedly proved an enduring favourite. Bud Cort stars as a young weirdo obsessed with death, who meets a free-spirited old hippy (Ruth Gordon) […]

Apr, 11 · in Reviews

Kingdom of Heaven **** (2005, Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson) – Classic Movie Review 1075

On the level of sheer film-making expertise, director Ridley (Gladiator, Alien) Scott’s dark, sweeping, eye-popping 2005 epic is a marvel. It has all the amazing action, astounding effects, visual magnificence and minute attention to detail […]

Apr, 09

Buffalo ’66 **** (1998, Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Anjelica Huston, Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Jan-Michael Vincent, Kevin Pollak) – Classic Movie Review 1074

Co-writer-director Vincent Gallo stars in his own 1998 movie as a ex-con called Billy Brown, who goes on the run with (at first) reluctant teenage student hostage-lover Layla (Christina Ricci), getting her to masquerade as […]

Apr, 09

Buffalo Soldiers **** (2001, Joaquin Phoenix, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Liv Tyler) – Classic Movie Review 1073

Director Gregor Jordan’s 2001 movie, based on the book by Robert O’Connor, is his biggest success so far. Joaquin Phoenix stars as a soldier who wheels and deals on the black market at a 1989 […]

Apr, 09

Ned Kelly *** (2003, Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, Naomi Watts, Rachel Griffiths, Joel Edgerton) – Classic Movie Review 1,072

Director Gregor Jordan’s 2003 remake of Ned Kelly stars Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush and is in the interesting category. Director Gregor Jordan’s 2003 remake of Tony Richardson’s 1970 film Ned Kelly with […]

Apr, 09

The Quiet Ones (Jared Harris, Sam Claflin) – Movie Review

Jared Harris battles a weak screenplay and underpowered direction as an arrogant Oxford University physics professor who assembles a small team of students to conduct an experiment on a teenage girl (Olivia Cooke) with psychiatric problems, […]

Apr, 09

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