Derek Winnert

Mysterious Skin ***** (2004, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Michelle Trachtenberg, Elisabeth Shue, Bill Sage) – Classic Film Review 160

Brady Corbet stars with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the provocative, accomplished 2004 coming-of-age drama film Mysterious Skin as a Kansas teenager who thinks he has seen a UFO and been abducted by aliens. We can trust […]

Aug, 15 · in Reviews

Sunset Blvd. [Sunset Boulevard] ***** (1950, William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Fred Clark, Nancy Olson, Jack Webb) – Classic Movie Review 159

Gloria Swanson triumphs as Norma Desmond, an unbalanced, faded ageing former movie star, in Billy Wilder’s eerily dark, deliciously bitter and wryly humorous 1950 film noir classic Sunset Blvd. ‘All right, Mr DeMille, I’m ready […]

Aug, 14 · in Reviews

Saving Private Ryan ***** (1998, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore) – Classic Movie Review 158

Steven Spielberg’s devastating 1998 Second World War epic war film Saving Private Ryan scooped five Oscars. Tom Hanks, Matt Damon and Tom Sizemore are outstanding stars. Director Steven Spielberg’s devastating 1998 Second World War epic […]

Aug, 14

Elysium ***½ (2013, Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley) – Movie Review

I’ve got good and bad news for you. First the good news. It’s 2154, and if you’re rich you can fly off to live like royalty on Jodie Foster’s man-made space station floating high in […]

Aug, 14

Kick-Ass 2 – Film Review

Aaron Taylor Johnson is back as Dave Lizewski an American high schooler by day, who fancies himself as a bit of a masked vigilante avenger by night. His alter ego of course, is Kick-Ass. Chloe […]

Aug, 13

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo] ***** (1966, Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef) – Classic Movie Review 157

Wearing his same (uncleaned) poncho, Clint Eastwood again stars in the 1966 spaghetti Western film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo] as the drifter and gunslinger the Man […]

Aug, 13

Good Will Hunting ***** (1997, Matt Damon, Robin Williams) – Classic Movie Review 156

Gus Van Sant’s 1997 double Oscar-winning film is a highly intelligent, engrossing heart-warmer. Matt Damon gives a polished, magnetic, star-making performance as Will Hunting, a rebel university caretaker, a janitor at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of […]

Aug, 13

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