Derek Winnert

Rules of Engagement *** (2000, Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, Blair Underwood, Bruce Greenwood, Anne Archer) – Classic Movie Review 957

Director William Friedkin’s sharply handled, well-acted, sometimes exciting 2000 movie is an intriguing, intelligent and provocative mix of action movie, courtroom drama, ethical discussion and morality tale. An embittered Vietnam veteran-turned-small-time-lawyer, Colonel Hayes Hodges (Tommy […]

Mar, 22 · in Reviews

The Rules of Attraction **** (2002, James Van Der Beek, Ian Somerhalder, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, Kip Pardue, Kate Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 956

Producer-writer-director Roger Avary’s 2002 corrosive black comedy, based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, is crazy tale of intertwining lives at college, centring on a frustrated love quartet. James Van […]

Mar, 22 · in Uncategorized

Old School *** (2003, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 955

Co-writer/director Todd Phillips’s goofy, raunchy 2003 teen comedy stars the highly likeable Luke Wilson, Vince Vaughn and Will Ferrell as wacky thirtysomething guys who try to recapture their lost youth by living it up in […]

Mar, 21

King Arthur *** (2004, Clive Owen, Stephen Dillane, Keira Knightley, Mads Mikkelsen, Ioan Gruffudd, Joel Edgerton, Ray Winstone, Hugh Dancy) – Classic Movie Review 954

Director Antoine Fuqua’s 2004 movie stars Clive Owen, who looks glum as an Anglo-Roman Artorius (or King Arthur) in this entertainingly silly Hollywood attempt to prove that the legend actually happened – back in the Dark […]

Mar, 21

Diamonds Are Forever **** (1971, Sean Connery, Jill St John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell) – Classic Movie Review 953

Lana Wood: ‘I’m Plenty.’ Sean Connery: ‘I bet you are.’ Wood: ‘Plenty O’Toole.’ Connery: ’Named after your father?’ The 1971 spy thriller Diamonds Are Forever finds Sean Connery enjoying his sixth James Bond movie. Lana […]

Mar, 21

Moonraker *** (1979, Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel) – Classic Movie Review 952

Director Lewis Gilbert’s spoofy 1979 James Bond movie Moonraker is the fourth to star Roger Moore, this time on a mission to investigate the mid-air theft of a space shuttle. Strangely enough, he discovers that […]

Mar, 21

Svengali ** (2013, Jonny Owen, Maxine Peake, Joel Fry, Martin Freeman, Vicky McClure, Michael Socha) – Film Review

Jonny Owen writes and stars in this slightly quirky, slightly funny, very old-fashioned comedy look at the British music scene. He plays, rather likeably, a loveable loser called Dixie, up in London from the sticks, who […]

Mar, 21

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