Derek Winnert

LA Confidential ***** (1997, Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, James Cromwell, Danny DeVito, David Strathairn) – Classic Movie Review 15

Based on the novel by James Ellroy, director Curtis Hanson’s astonishingly complex, satisfying, powerful and accomplished thriller is quite simply the best film of its year – 1997. It’s Los Angeles in 1952 and an […]

Jul, 03 · in Reviews

The Wizard of Oz ***** (1939, Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke) – Classic Movie Review 14

The 17-year-old Judy Garland gives a knockout, wizard performance in the 1939 gem The Wizard of Oz as the Kansas farm girl Dorothy, who sprinkles a special kind of fairy dust on her magical journey […]

Jul, 03 · in Reviews

Pulp Fiction ***** (1994, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L Jackson, Bruce Willis) – Classic Movie Review 13

Often unbearably tense and frequently hilarious, Quentin Tarantino’s second film, following his greatly admired 1992 cult hit Reservoir Dogs, is still his masterpiece. Tarantino’s brilliantly inventive and exuberant direction of his ultra-smart, sadistically violent 1994 […]

Jul, 03

Hummingbird [Redemption] *** (2013, Jason Statham, Agata Buzek, Vicky McClure) – Movie Review

The writer of Eastern Promises and Dirty Pretty Things, Steven Knight, makes his director debut in this typical, would-be smart London low-life thriller starring Jason Statham – so you know exactly what to expect. Statham […]

Jul, 02

The Battle of the Sexes **** (2013, Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs) – Movie Review

‘I wanted to change the hearts and minds of people,’ says Billie Jean King. And this is how she did it. The Battle of the Sexes is a surprisingly excellent and entertaining documentary about 29-year-old […]

Jul, 01

The Relic ****½ (1997, Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore) – Classic Movie Review 12

Something wicked this way comes! Must-see monster movie The Relic (1997). Something wicked this way comes! A now-missing anthropologist investigating the culture of lost tribes has mysteriously sent crates of leaves from the Amazon jungle […]

Jul, 01

The Comfort of Strangers **** (1990, Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren) – Classic Movie Review 11

‘My father was a very big man. All his life he wore a black moustache and when it turned grey he used a small brush, such as ladies use for their eyes – mascara!’ You […]

Jul, 01

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