Derek Winnert

X-Men ***** (2000, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen) – Classic Film Review 96

Director Bryan Singer’s landmark 2000 sci-fi adventure movie is a thrilling, visually astounding adaptation of the Marvel comic books. Hugh Jackman and Anna Paquin star as gifted mutants Wolverine and Rogue, who join Professor Xavier’s […]

Jul, 27 · in Reviews

Heaven’s Gate **** (1980, Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Isabelle Huppert, Sam Waterston) – Classic Movie Review 95

Michael Cimino’s infamous 1980 Western film Heaven’s Gate is the most exciting, most spectacular of visual movies. Christopher Walken’s a knockout. Kris Kristofferson and Isabelle Huppert are excellent.  Directly supervised by director Michael Cimino, the 2013 […]

Jul, 27 · in Reviews

Hearts in Atlantis **** (2001, Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis) – Classic Movie Review 94

Based on a Stephen King story, Hearts in Atlantis (2001) is a subtle, exquisitely crafted, perfect little gem of a coming-of-age movie. ‘Whenever it wants the past can come kicking the door down.’ Based on […]

Jul, 27

Shoot the Pianist [Tirez sur le Pianist] **** (1960, Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Albert Rémy, Serge Davri, Claude Mansard, Daniel Boulanger) – Classic Movie Review 93

François Truffaut turns David Goodis’s thriller novel Down There into an exuberant, quirky, stylish personal take on the Hollywood B-movie thriller for his second feature, the 1960 film Tirez sur le Pianist [Shoot the Pianist].  […]

Jul, 26

Frenzy **** (1972, Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Alec McCowen, Bernard Cribbins, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Vivien Merchant, Billie Whitelaw, Jean Marsh) – Classic Movie Review 92

Written with great relish and expertise by Anthony Shaffer (author of the play Sleuth and The Wicker Man screenplay) and directed in England in a creative frenzy by Alfred Hitchcock, the 1972 thriller Frenzy is […]

Jul, 26

If . . . ***** (1968, Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Robert Swann) – Classic Movie Review 91

Come the revolution, ‘which side would you be on’? Director Lindsay Anderson’s sabre-rattling story of the repressive life at an English public school in the late Sixties is satisfyingly potent and incisive. Although set in a […]

Jul, 26

Dracula [Horror of Dracula] ***** (1958, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling) – Classic Movie Review 90

Hammer Films adds the final touches to its repertoire – blood and sex – with a bevvy of beauties being bitten to orgasmic screams after opening their windows to the Count, in the 1958 British […]

Jul, 25

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