Derek Winnert

Casper **** (1995, Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle) – Classic Movie Review 840

Steven Spielberg decides in 1995 to produce the live-action debut of beloved cartoon friendly ghost Casper. But casting young Christina Ricci, (once Wednesday in the Addams Family movies and now 15) as the heroine gives her […]

Feb, 18 · in Reviews

Casino Royale *** (1967, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Ursula Andress, John Huston, William Holden, Deborah Kerr) – Classic Movie Review 839

The original 1967 Casino Royale movie is a huge-scale, vastly costly James Bond spoof, starring David Niven as British secret agent Sir James Bond, who is called out of retirement after the death of M […]

Feb, 18 · in Uncategorized

Casino Royale *** (2006, Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Wright, Giancarlo Giannini, Caterina Murino) – Classic Movie Review 838

Daniel Craig was named as the sixth actor to play James Bond in October 2005, following Pierce Brosnan’s surprise departure from the role after Die Another Day in 2002. Allegedly the popular Brosnan was asking for […]

Feb, 18

The Prophecy 3: The Ascent **** (2000, Christopher Walken, Vincent Spano, Dave Buzzotta, Brad Dourif) – Classic Movie Review 837

Director Patrick Lussier’s welcome 2000 sequel to the 1995 and 1998 hits completes the trilogy in style. Christopher Walken is back again for a third time as the extremely bad and dangerous fallen Archangel Gabriel, continuing […]

Feb, 16

The Prophecy II **** (1998, Christopher Walken, Russell Wong, Jennifer Beals, Brittany Murphy, Eric Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 836

Christopher Walken reprises his role as the extremely bad and dangerous, and now angry, fallen Archangel Gabriel in director Greg Spence’s eerie, exuberant and often very compelling supernatural 1998 horror-fantasy thriller sequel to the 1995 […]

Feb, 16

Brazil ***** (1985, Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Jim Broadbent, Michael Palin, Ian Holm, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 836

Co-writer/director Terry Gilliam’s dazzling 1985 movie provides an ambitious, horrifying vision of a dystopian world in the style of George Orwell’s novel 1984, predicting and condemning a bizarrely convoluted and inefficient state. Gilliam’s nightmarish vision makes for […]

Feb, 16

Pump up the Volume **** (1990, Christian Slater, Scott Paulin, Ellen Greene, Samantha Mathis) – Classic Movie Review 835

Allan Moyle’s 1990 comedy drama film Pump up the Volume stars Christian Slater as an Arizona suburban high school lad who moonlights as a pirate radio disc jockey. Writer-director Allan Moyle’s 1990 comedy drama film […]

Feb, 16

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