Derek Winnert

The Exorcist ***** (1973, Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J Cobb, Jason Miller) – Classic Movie Review 110

Director William Friedkin’s The Exorcist is the big daddy of all exorcism movies, often copied, but never bettered. Made in 1973, it is still a terrifying, gut-wrenching supernatural horror yarn. Linda Blair stars as a […]

Jul, 30 · in Reviews

A Perfect Murder **** (1998, Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet) – Classic Movie Review 109

Director Andrew Davis’s 1998 sleek, seductive and supremely skilful psychological suspense thriller is an extremely imaginative reworking of Alfred Hitchcock’s 3D 1954 movie Dial M for Murder, itself based on Frederick Knott’s hit stage play. […]

Jul, 30 · in Reviews

Ripley’s Game **** (2002, John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena Headey, Chiara Caselli) – Classic Movie Review 108

Patricia Highsmith’s distinguished, chilling crime novel Ripley’s Game (the third book in her Tom Ripley sequence) becomes a slick, polished and riveting pulp fiction thriller in 2002 in the expert hands of an unexpected film-maker […]

Jul, 30

Tea with Mussolini **** (1999, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, Cher, Lily Tomlin, Baird Wallace, Claudio Spadaro, Michael Williams) – Classic Movie Review 107

This splendid 1999 film is a lightly fictionalised version of Italian director Franco Zeffirelli’s true-life story, which starts in pre-World War Two Fascist Italy, when, as a boy, he is befriended by a group of redoubtable English ladies, […]

Jul, 30

Terminator 2: Judgment Day ***** (1991, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong) – Classic Movie Review 106

In 1984 Arnie promised to be back, and so he was in 1991. It’s now a decade since the original The Terminator tried to kill Sarah Connor in the first film. And, in an extraordinary, […]

Jul, 29

The Terminator ***** (1984, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn) – Classic Movie Review 105

Arnold Schwarzenegger finds the role he was born for as The Terminator (T-800 Model 101), a cyborg (part man, part machine) despatched from a post-apocalyptic 21st century to Los Angeles circa 1984. In that future, […]

Jul, 29

Wings of Desire [Der Himmel über Berlin] ***** (1987, Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Curt Bois, Peter Falk) – Classic Movie Review 104

Following up his 1984 international art-house hit Paris, Texas, German director Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire [Der Himmel über Berlin] is an acclaimed essay on modern-day spirituality, observing the inhabitants’ failings and painstaking progress in […]

Jul, 29

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