Derek Winnert

Blade II *** (2002, Wesley Snipes. Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Thomas Kretschmann, Leonor Varela, Norman Reedus, Luke Goss) – Classic Movie Review 1066

Wesley Snipes returns as in director Guillermo del Toro’s 2002 sequel to the 1998 hit Blade, as Marv Wolfman’s cartoon superhero Blade, a vampire-hunter swordsman who’s half-vampire himself, but gets out in the daytime with […]

Apr, 06 · in Reviews

Blade ***½ (1998, Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson) – Classic Movie Review 1,065

An ideal Wesley Snipes stars as the vampire/ human hybrid vampire-hunter in the entertaining, blood-thirsty 1998 American superhero film Blade. It is Marvel’s first film success. Director Stephen Norrington’s 1998 blood-thirsty fantasy thriller film Blade casts […]

Apr, 06 · in Reviews

The Return of Frank James **** (1940, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper) – Classic Film Review 1064

Director Fritz Lang’s 1940 follow-up to 1939’s huge hit Jesse James is at least the equal of a marvellous original. Once more, the film was universally considered historically inaccurate but again was a commercial success. […]

Apr, 06

Jesse James **** (1939, Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Brian Donlevy) – Classic Movie Review 1063

Director Henry King’s 1939 Western is marvellous vintage action entertainment with a provocative central idea of the outlaws being dubiously reinvented as heroes, just like in Robin Hood or Bonnie and Clyde. That’s how the […]

Apr, 06

Tom at the Farm [Tom à la ferme] **½ (2013, Xavier Dolan, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lise Roy) – Movie Review

In this French-Canadian gay film, made in Quebec, director Xavier Dolan stars as Tom, who is in a torment of grief and depression just after the death of his male lover. He hoves up uninvited at the […]

Apr, 06

The Motel Life **** (2012, Stephen Dorff, Emile Hirsch, Dakota Fanning, Kris Kristofferson, Joshua Leonard, Garrett Backstrom, Andrew Lee) – Movie Review

Stephen Dorff and Emile Hirsch are the American working-class Flannigan brothers. One lost a leg train-hopping; the other is a recovering alcoholic. Now Jerry Lee and Frank are forced to flee their Reno motel after getting involved […]

Apr, 06

Jersey Girl ** (2004, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Jason Biggs, Jennifer Lopez, George Carlin) – Classic Movie Review 1062

Writer-director Kevin Smith’s 2004 comedy stars Ben Affleck, who is warm and appealing as Ollie Trinke, a top New York publicist whose wife Gertrude (Jennifer Lopez) dies in childbirth. He tries to park their baby […]

Apr, 06

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