Derek Winnert

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 · in Reviews

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 · in Uncategorized

Body Parts * (1991, Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delaney, Brad Dourif, Zakes Mokae) – Classic Movie Review 9413

Director Eric Red’s 1991 Body Parts is a lolloping horror-movie mongrel, stitching a timeworn chiller premise into a slick MTV-style package that immerses itself in the horrors of modern technology after micro-surgeon Dr Agatha Webb […]

Feb, 22

Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Cronaca di una morte annunciata] * (1987) – Classic Movie Review 9412

Director Francesco Rosi’s 1987 Italy / France / Colombia drama Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Cronaca di una morte annunciata] is a major miscalculation, with some embarrassing work from some big names of cinema. It […]

Feb, 22

Body of Evidence * (1992, Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 9411

The body in question is Madonna’s and we get to see an awful lot of it in director Uli Edel’s disastrous 1992 erotic courtroom thriller Body of Evidence. Madonna won the 1994 Razzie Award for […]

Feb, 22

Christiane F [Christiane F – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo] **** (1981, Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein, Eberhard Auriga, Peggy Bussieck) – Classic Movie Review 9410

Director Uli [Ulrich] Edel’s 1981 German drama Christiane F [Christiane F – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo] is based on Christiane’s bestselling story as told to reporters at the Hamburg-based Stern weekly news magazine, and […]

Feb, 22

Last Exit to Brooklyn **** (1989, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 9409

It has been left to the Germans to make a film version of Hubert Selby Jr’s harrowing, controversial novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, banned following a private prosecution in July 1966, after its publication in […]

Feb, 22

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