Derek Winnert

Under Siege **** (1992, Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak) – Classic Movie Review 1,017

Andrew Davis’s 1992 action thriller film Under Siege is a humdinger, hitting the target bull’s eye. Steven Seagal excites in his best film as ship’s cook and former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback. Director Andrew Davis’s […]

Mar, 29 · in Reviews

Buying the Cow *** (2002, Jerry O’Connell, Ryan Reynolds, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Bill Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 1016

‘Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?’ Co-writer/director Walt Becker’s 2002 wilfully non-PC comedy is a shameful, hilarious, laddish hoot. Jerry O’Connell stars as Dave, a Los Angeles commitment-phobic yuppie who […]

Mar, 29 · in Reviews

A Time to Kill *** (1996, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey) – Classic Film Review 1015

Based on the John Grisham bestselling legal thriller novel, director Joel Schumacher’s 1996 movie is an acceptable, quite enjoyable but rather tepid and vaguely botched racially-aware legal thriller. In Mississippi, an African American father Carl Lee […]

Mar, 29

Red Corner **** (1997, Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford) – Classic Movie Review 1014

Director Jon Avnet’s strong, fired-up 1997 thriller stars Richard Gere as an American lawyer who is in Beijing for TV contract work. He has a one-night stand, wakes up next to a dead young woman […]

Mar, 29

The Glass House ** (2001, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård, Leelee Sobieski, Trevor Morgan, Bruce Dern, Kathy Baker, Chris Noth, Michael O’Keefe) – Classic Movie Review 1013

After her parents are killed in a car accident, orphaned teen Leelee Sobieski and her little brother Rhett (Trevor Morgan) travel to Malibu to live with Erin and Terrence Glass (Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård), their […]

Mar, 29

The Blue Dahlia ***** (1946, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Doris Dowling, Howard Da Silva, Tom Powers, Hugh Beaumont, Howard Freeman, Don Costello, Will Wright) – Classic Movie Review 1,012

The great 1946 film noir crime thriller The Blue Dahlia stars Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and William Bendix, and boasts Raymond Chandler’s first and only original screenplay. Chandler called her ‘Moronica’ Lake and Ladd a […]

Mar, 29

This Gun for Hire ***** (1942, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston) – Classic Movie Review 1,011

The 1942 film noir thriller This Gun for Hire transforms Graham Greene’s novel into a showcase for the sparkling new star team of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake (just 20), propelling them into superstardom. ‘You […]

Mar, 29

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