Derek Winnert

Meet Joe Black **** (1998, Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani) – Classic Movie Review 688

Based on the 1934 Fredric March film Death Takes a Holiday, director Martin Brest’s sumptuous, wildly romantic drama from 1998 was said to have gone $30million over budget and cost an astonishing $90million. Brad Pitt […]

Jan, 18 · in Reviews

Twelve Monkeys [12 Monkeys] ***** (1995, Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Frank Gorshin, Christopher Plummer, Jon Seda) – Classic Movie Review 689

‘Between the past and the future, sanity and madness, dreams and reality lies the mystery of the Twelve Monkeys.’ Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt kick up a storm in director Terry Gilliam’s dazzling-looking, […]

Jan, 18 · in Reviews

The Horse Whisperer *** (1998, Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Scarlett Johansson, Dianne Wiest, Chris Cooper, Cherry Jones, Kate Bosworth) – Classic Film Review 692

Based on the bestselling novel by Nicholas Evans, this is plush, graceful film-making by director Robert Redford in 1999. Young teenager Grace (Scarlett Johansson) is horrendously wounded and traumatised after a disturbing horse-riding accident and […]

Jan, 18

Spy Game **** (2001, Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack) – Classic Movie Review 693

The most heroic golden boys of their generations, Robert Redford and Brad Pitt, obviously enjoyed working together when they first teamed when Redford starred Pitt in his 1992 fly-fishing movie, A River Runs Through It. […]

Jan, 17

xXx *** (2002, Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 694

Vin Diesel races to superstardom in the 2002 all-action thriller xXx as thrill seeker Xander Cage, who is recruited by US spy boss Agent Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L Jackson) and sent on a special mission. […]

Jan, 17

Sleepers **** (1997, Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Renfro, Ron Eldard, Billy Crudup) – Classic Movie Review 695

In the nostalgic movie glow of the 1960s, four normally nice, basically decent New York kids torment a hot-dog man and a passer-by is killed with his cascading trolley in a thoughtless prank. They are incarcerated […]

Jan, 17

Open Range **** (2003, Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Diego Luna, Annette Bening, Michael Gambon) – Classic Movie Review 691

With director Kevin Costner’s 2003 movie Open Range, the old-style epic Western is back, at least for this one-off. And it’s a great one – as cattlemen Charley Waite and Boss Spearman (played by Kevin Costner […]

Jan, 17

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