Derek Winnert

Bullitt ***** (1968, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn) – Classic Movie Review 941

Peter Yates’s 1968 police action thriller film Bullitt is the best-ever car chase movie as well as (arguably) the quintessential Steve McQueen movie, plus a great Lalo Schifrin score. British director Peter Yates’s 1968 police […]

Mar, 19 · in Reviews

Gone in 60 Seconds *** (1974, H B Halicki, Marion Busia, Jerry Daugirda) – Classic Movie Review 940

A car thief is forced by an evil crime boss baddie to come out of retirement to steal 50 vehicles in a night to save his brother’s life. H B Halicki writes, produces, directs, does his […]

Mar, 19 · in Reviews

Gone in Sixty Seconds ***½ (2000, Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi) – Classic Movie Review 939

Director Dominic Sena’s 2000 action thriller remakes a low-budget cult 1974 movie with a big budget, some flash and zest, and Nicolas Cage starring as legendary master car thief Randall ‘Memphis’ Raines. In Scott Rosenberg’s […]

Mar, 19

The Two Jakes **** (1990, Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach, Ruben Blades, Frederic Forrest, David Keith, Richard Farnsworth, Tracey Walter) – Classic Movie Review 938

In the third of his trio of movies as director, Jack Nicholson films in 1990 his buddy Robert Towne’s screenplay The Two Jakes for their belated sequel to Chinatown (1974). In the third of his […]

Mar, 18

Goin’ South **** (1978, Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi) – Classic Movie Review 937

Jack Nicholson directs an enjoyable, rollicking romantic comedy Western, with a delightfully quirky screenplay based on the story by John Herman Shaner and Al Ramrus. It’s the middle one of only three films Nicholson has directed, […]

Mar, 18

Swing Time ***** (1936, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Victor Moore, Betty Furness, Georges Metaxa) – Classic Movie Review 936

‘America’s dazzling dancing stars explode in a glorious songburst of gayety and gladness!’ Director George Stevens’s heavenly all-time great 1936 musical Swing Time stars the divine pair of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, already in […]

Mar, 18

Chocolat *** (2000, Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp, Carrie-Anne Moss, John Wood, Leslie Caron) – Classic Movie Review 935

Director Lasse Hallstrom’s sweet 2000 heart-warming wallow easily entertains the romantically inclined but he overeggs the soufflé with a miscalculated charm attack. Oscar-nominated Juliette Binoche is a very tasty morsel as Vianne Rocher, a free-spirited confectioner […]

Mar, 18

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