Derek Winnert

Lifeboat **** (1944, Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak) – Classic Movie Review 273

Alfred Hitchcock said of his 1944 wartime thriller film Lifeboat: ‘I never let that camera get outside the lifeboat. The technical challenge was enormous. Of course Tallulah Bankhead dominated the whole film.’ Alfred Hitchcock’s 1944 […]

Oct, 06 · in Reviews

Boogie Nights ***** (1997, Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds) – Classic Movie Review 272

Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 breakthrough movie is a very adult, brilliantly staged epic look at the LA porn scene of the late 70s and early 80s. Epic in scale as well as running time (155 […]

Oct, 06 · in Reviews

Final Destination **** (2000, Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Seann William Scott, Brendan Fehr, Amanda Detmer, Tony Todd) – Classic Movie Review 271

James Wong’s 2000 film Final Destination is a great fun, cleverly staged teen chiller. It is ingeniously written by Jeffrey Reddick, with effective performances (especially by Devon Sawa) and scary set pieces. Director James Wong’s […]

Oct, 05

The Fifth Element **** (1997, Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry, Lee Evans, John Neville, Brion James, John Bluthal) – Classic Movie Review 270

Cult French director Luc Besson, working in an English studio and the then about-to-close London Royal Opera House, exuberantly embarks on Europe’s most expensive film, the 1997 science fiction action epic The Fifth Element.  And […]

Oct, 05

Eyes Wide Shut **** (1999, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack) – Classic Movie Review 269

It’s 1999, and, when the screen’s then most famous married couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, teams up with one of the great film directors – Stanley Kubrick – you expect sparks to fly or […]

Oct, 05

Rumble Fish ***** (1983, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 268

The 19-year-old Matt Dillon stars in 1983 in his third film version of an S E Hinton story of disaffected teenage rebels without a cause, following Tex (1982) and The Outsiders (1983). Francis Ford Coppola […]

Oct, 05

How I Live Now *** (2013, Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird, Anna Chancellor) – Movie Review

Teenagers moon around in rural UK as the apocalypse strikes. Saoirse Ronan stars in 2013 as Daisy, a vaguely neurotic and semi-dysfunctional American girl who arrives in the English countryside to holiday with her English family at a […]

Oct, 03

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