Derek Winnert

Cutthroat Island **** (1995, Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella) – Classic Movie Review 912

The $100 million pirate movie box-office flop 1995 film Cutthroat Island that sank the Carolco studio is not remotely anything like as bad as its infamy suggests. Geena Davis is extremely sprightly and appealing as […]

Mar, 13 · in Reviews

The Long Kiss Goodnight *** (1996, Geena Davis, Samuel L Jackson, Yvonne Zima) – Classic Movie Review 911

The Long Kiss Goodnight is a very cynical, fast-driving, exciting 1996 action thriller from director Renny Harlin, who likes to deliver sadistic moments, creating a hard edge for what is essentially a rather corny piece. […]

Mar, 13 · in Reviews

Don’t Say a Word *** (2001, Michael Douglas, Brittany Murphy) – Classic Movie Review 912

Michael Douglas lifts director Gary Fleder’s solid, old-style, if frankly contrived 2001 Hollywood thriller as Dr Nathan Conrad, a psychiatrist whose eight-year-old daughter Jessie (Skye McCole Bartusiak) is abducted by crazed crooks. They are desperately […]

Mar, 13

Don Juan DeMarco **** (1994, Johnny Depp, Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway) – Classic Movie Review 909

‘There are only four questions of value in life: What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for? And what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the […]

Mar, 13

The Score (2001, De Niro, Brando) – Classic Film Review 908

Three acting greats — Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Marlon Brando — are lined up for director Frank Oz’s thrilling and stylish 2001 heist film. It’s set in Montreal, where a priceless ancient sceptre is […]

Mar, 12

Island of Lost Souls **** (1932, Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams) – Classic Movie Review 907

Director Erle C Kenton’s 1932 horror movie is still the best film version of H G Wells’s story The Island of Dr Moreau. It was considered so horrific that it was banned by the British […]

Mar, 12

The Island of Dr Moreau (1977, Burt Lancaster) – Classic Film Review 906

Burt Lancaster stars in 1977 as mad scientist Dr Paul Moreau who creates human-animal hybrids in a gripping, atmospheric and lavish remake of the 1933 film The Island of Lost Souls with Charles Laughton, from the […]

Mar, 12

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