Derek Winnert

Snow Falling on Cedars **** (1999, Ethan Hawke, Max von Sydow, Yûki Kudô, Rick Yune, James Cromwell, James Rebhorn) – Classic Movie Review 884

Immediately after World War Two, in an American Pacific Northwest small town, the discovery of the death of a white fisherman at sea and the subsequent murder trial of his neighbour, a Japanese-American fisherman (Rick […]

Mar, 07 · in Reviews

High Fidelity **** (2000, John Cusack, Jack Black, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Lisa Bonet, Joan Cusack, Tim Robbins) – Classic Movie Review 876

Director Stephen Frears’s amusing and very popular 2000 comedy High Fidelity stars John Cusack as Rob Gordon, the 30-something owner of the Championship Vinyl record shop, who reminisces about his lost loves. It is the slightly […]

Mar, 07 · in Reviews

Showgirls *** (1995, Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon) – Classic Movie Review 885

In director Paul Verhoeven’s infamous 1995 shocker, Elizabeth Berkley plays Nomi Malone, a tarty, ambitious chorus line dancer who hitches to Las Vegas and tries to find work in a big show. Having failed the […]

Mar, 07

High Crimes *** (2002, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Jim Caviezel) – Classic Movie Review 875

Director Carl Franklin’s 2002 thriller stars Ashley Judd as a high-flying lawyer Claire Kubik, who is shocked and her idyllic life is shattered when her ex-marine husband Tom (Jim Caviezel) is arrested by the military […]

Mar, 07

Raging Bull ***** (1980, Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci) – Classic Movie Review 874

Martin Scorsese’s 1980 movie Raging Bull is one of this great director’s finest as well as one of the most iconic key films of the Eighties. Robert De Niro gives one of his most astounding performances, winning his […]

Mar, 06

Hustler White (1995) – Classic Film Review 871

A in-jokey homage to classic Hollywood cinema, writer-directors Rick Castro and Bruce La Bruce’s 1995 gay movie Hustler White transposes the action of Sunset Boulevard from the silver screen’s old movie backlots to the business of […]

Mar, 06

The Color of Money **** (1986, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 873

Paul Newman didn’t attend the Academy Awards ceremony when he won his long-overdue Best Actor Oscar for Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money in 1987. Nor did he when he won an honorary award the […]

Mar, 06

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