Derek Winnert

"The Review's Better Than The Film"

Revenge **** (2017, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe) – Movie Review

Coralie Fargeat’s full-on feminist French thriller Revenge (2017) is stonkingly intense, exciting and brilliantly shot (by Robrecht Heyvaert), with an interesting, playfully post-modern take on the war between men and women. There is more flesh […]

May, 20 · in Reviews

Back to School * (1986, Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 7073

Director Alan Metter’s unpleasing 1986 comedy is a shoddy, obvious and unfunny vehicle for an unappealing star in Rodney Dangerfield, who plays Thornton Melon, an uncouth middle-aged millionaire signing up as a college freshman to […]

May, 20 · in Reviews

A Walk in the Clouds **** (1995, Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Giancarlo Giannini, Anthony Quinn) – Classic Movie Review 7072

Director Alfonso Arau’s delicious and delightful 1995 full-on romantic drama A Walk in the Clouds stars Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Giancarlo Giannini and Anthony Quinn. It tells a sweet story with charm to spare, is compellingly acted, and nicely directed […]

May, 20

The Last Time I Committed Suicide *** (1997, Thomas Jane, Keanu Reeves, Adrien Brody, John Doe, Claire Forlani, Marg Helgenberger, Lucinda Jenney, Gretchen Moll) – Classic Movie Review 7071

Thomas Jane stars as the doomed and tormented real-life Neal Cassady, living the beat life during the 1940s, in writer-director Stephen T Kay’s taut and compelling little 1997 biographical drama, based on Cassady’s own life […]

May, 19

Johnny Mnemonic ** (1995, Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Ice-T, Takeshi Kitano, Dina Meyer, Udo Keir) – Classic Movie Review 7070

Keanu Reeves has a micro-chip for brains as Johnny Mnemonic in director Robert Longo’s silly, nasty-toned 1995 sci-fi action thriller set in the 21st century when the most valuable information is transported in mnemonic implants […]

May, 19

The Matrix Revolutions **** (2003, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Monica Bellucci, Lambert Wilson, Harold Perrineau Jr, Anthony Zerbe) – Classic Movie Review 7069

Everything that has a beginning must have an end – and here it is, The Matrix Revolutions (2003), following The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded. Back in the groovy superhero shades and swishy black coat, […]

May, 19

The Matrix Reloaded **** (2003, Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Monica Bellucci, Lambert Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 7068

Back in the groovy superhero shades and a new swishy black coat, Keanu Reeves assumes his destiny as the hunky one who is The One in The Matrix Reloaded (2003), the second chapter of the […]

May, 19

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