Derek Winnert

Coffy *** (1973, Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui) Classic Movie Review 9420

Writer-director Jack Hill’s 1973 Coffy stars Pam Grier as sexy nurse ‘Coffy’ Coffin, who goes on the vengeance trail as a hooker with a great right hook after her sister is brain damaged by heroin, […]

Feb, 23 · in Reviews

Foxy Brown *** (1974, Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown) – Classic Movie Review 9419

Writer-director Jack Hill’s 1974 nasty-toned, ultra-violent but vigorous early Seventies blaxploitation action thriller Foxy Brown stars the admirable Pam Grier in one of her most iconic performances as vigilante Foxy Brown on the vengeance trail […]

Feb, 23 · in Reviews

Black Rainbow *** (1989, Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards, Tom Hulce) – Classic Movie Review 9418

Director Mike Hodges’s intriguing and involving 1989 horror thriller Black Rainbow stars Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards Jr and Tom Hulce. Arquette plays spiritualist medium Martha Travis, who travels to America’s Bible belt on tour with […]

Feb, 23

Black Rain **** (1989, Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura) – Classic Movie Review 9417

The 1989 neo noir action crime movie Black Rain is a thoroughly involving, beautifully crafted cop thriller from Ridley Scott, who lifts a serviceably routine plot into an exciting movie. Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia […]

Feb, 23

Someone Behind the Door [Quelqu’un derrière la porte] ** (1971, Charles Bronson, Anthony Perkins, Jill Ireland, Henri Garcin) – Classic Movie Review 9416

Charles Bronson and Anthony Perkins star in director Nicolas Gessner’s preposterous but fairly lively and engrossing 1971 Euro-thriller Someone Behind the Door [Quelqu’un derrière la porte], set in England, about an unbalanced neurosurgeon doctor Laurence […]

Feb, 23

Someone to Watch Over Me ***** (1987, Tom Berenger, Mimi Rogers, Lorraine Bracco) – Classic Movie Review 9,415

Ridley Scott’s nail-biting 1987 American neo-noir romantic thriller film Someone to Watch Over Me stars Tom Berenger as a New York cop assigned to protect a key murder trial witness, rich socialite Mimi Rogers. Director […]

Feb, 23

Cohen and Tate *** (1988, Roy Scheider, Adam Baldwin, Harley Cross) – Classic Movie Review 9414

Writer-director Eric Red’s 1989 crime thriller Cohen and Tate tells the unlikely but consistently intriguing tale of professional assassins Cohen (Roy Scheider) and Tate (Adam Baldwin), who are assigned to abduct a nine-year-old boy witness to […]

Feb, 22

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