Derek Winnert

Jeepers Creepers **** (2001, Gina Philips, Justin Long, Jonathan Breck) – Classic Movie Review 267

Duel meets Scream in Jeepers Creepers (2001), this really scary, scalding 2001 horror monster movie from writer-director Victor Salva and producer Francis Ford Coppola. Gina Philips and Justin Long star as young Trish and her kid brother […]

Oct, 02 · in Reviews

Lake Placid **** (1999, Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleason, Betty White) – Classic Movie Review 266

Intense, suspenseful, witty and often hilarious, director Steve Miner’s and writer David E Kelley’s tongue-in-cheek 1999 monster movie Lake Placid is a great fun scare ride. It is one of the best of its popular but […]

Oct, 02 · in Reviews

Blast from the Past **** (1999, Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Christopher Walken, Sissy Spacek, Dave Foley) – Classic Movie Review 265

Director Hugh Wilson’s enchanting 1999 movie is a charming and delightful romantic comedy about the fallout of true love between two children of the nuclear age. Brendan Fraser stars as an innocent young man called […]

Oct, 01

Gods and Monsters **** (1998, Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 264

Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave finally both won Oscar nominations for their enjoyably extravagant turns in the crowd-pleasing 1998 behind-the-cameras movie Gods and Monsters. Brendan Fraser plays gardener Clayton Boone, a young ex-marine. After 30-odd […]

Oct, 01

The Red Violin [Le Violon Rouge] ***** (1998, Samuel L Jackson, Don McKellar, Jason Flemyng, Greta Scacchi, Colm Feore, Sandra Oh, Carlo Cecchi) – Classic Movie Review 263

The haunting and ravishing treat of a film called The Red Violin (1998). Director François Girard tells the ambitious, utterly beguiling and beautiful epic history of a mythical violin from its creation by maker Nicolo […]

Oct, 01

Billy Elliot ***** (2000, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewis) – Classic Movie Review 262

Here at long, long last in 2000 came a British movie to cheer about – and a new young star in the making in 14-year-old Jamie Bell. Billy Elliot is a follow that dream, rags […]

Sep, 30

American Psycho **** (2000, Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Chloë Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto, Justin Theroux, Bill Sage, Samantha Mathis) – Classic Film Review 261

Christian Bale gives an astonishing performance as 27-year-old Eighties New York yuppie Patrick Bateman, a handsome, well educated, brilliantly groomed and superbly gym-fit, muscled-up Wall Street broker. He earns a fortune in his job by […]

Sep, 30

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