Derek Winnert

The Way of the Gun (2000, Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro) – Classic Film Review 963

Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie’s 2000 vicious, scalding thriller stars Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro as young petty crooks who kidnap a young woman (Juliette Lewis) and hold her for ransom. But various deadly low-lives are […]

Mar, 24 · in Reviews

Playing by Heart (1998, Gillian Anderson, Ellen Burstyn, Sean Connery, Angelina Jolie, Gena Rowlands, Ryan Phillippe, Jay Mohr, Dennis Quaid) – Classic Film Review 977

Couples encounter love lost and found in Los Angeles in director Willard Carroll’s intelligent, starry, feel-good 1998 conversation piece, with the concept (11 articulate people work through affairs of the heart in LA) and dialogue […]

Mar, 24 · in Reviews

Turbulence *** (1997, Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Cross, Rachel Tricotin) – Classic Movie Review 975

Ray Liotta lands a hugely entertaining daft role as a crazed killer aboard a storm-hit 747 jumbo jet, in the 1997 airplane disaster movie Turbulence.  Director Robert Butler’s 1997 airplane disaster movie Turbulence is a […]

Mar, 24

Entrapment (1999, Connery, Zeta Jones) – Classic Film Review 976

Director Jon Amiel’s very sprightly, enjoyably old-style 1999 caper thriller finds Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones proving a well-paired star team. Connery plays Mac, an ageing art thief, and she’s Gin, a sexy young […]

Mar, 24

A Streetcar Named Desire ***** (1951, Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 974

Director Elia Kazan’s superbly realised 1951 movie version of Tennessee Williams’s greatest and most archetypal play A Streetcar Named Desire is a memorable occasion, lit up by its incandescent performances. It won four Oscars, including […]

Mar, 23

Alexander ** (2004, Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Angelina Jolie, Jared Leto, Val Kilmer) – Bad Movie 3

Fortune normally favours the bold, maybe, but not here. Co-writer/director Oliver Stone’s 2004 classical adventure epic is certainly brave and ambitious but it is also turgid and laughable. An absurdly miscast Colin Farrell is too […]

Mar, 23

Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997, Sandra Bullock) – Bad Movie 2

Director Jan de Bont’s 1997 Keanu Reeves-less sequel to the 1994 megahit is a farrago. Everything about it goes wrong where everything went right the first time. You wouldn’t think it was the same director, […]

Mar, 23

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