Derek Winnert

Into the Night **** (1985, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dan Aykroyd, David Bowie, Richard Farnsworth, Irene Papas, Vera Miles, Dan Aykroyd, Clu Gulager, Kathryn Harrold) – Classic Movie Review 7621

Director John Landis’s dark and dangerous 1985 comedy thriller Into the Night stars Jeff Goldblum as wimpish Los Angeles aviation designer Ed Okin, who cannot sleep, so he drives aimlessly around LA and ends up in the parking garage […]

Sep, 27 · in Reviews

Arctic ***½ (2018, Mads Mikkelsen, Maria Thelma Smáradóttir) – Movie Review

Mads Mikkelsen stars in co-writer/ director Joe Penna’s 2018 survival thriller Arctic as Overgård, an incredibly strong, brave and resourceful man who desperately tries to survive the Arctic after a plane crash. [Spoiler alert] His his long-awaited […]

Sep, 27 · in Reviews

School’s Out [L’heure de la sortie] **** (2018, Laurent Lafitte, Luàna Bajrami, Emmanuelle Bercot, Victor Bonnel) – Movie Review

School’s Out stars as Monsieur Eric Capadis, the professor of French at the prestigious French College of St Joseph, jumps from the window in the middle of a class. Then the handsome, charming, honourable but […]

Sep, 26

The Wife **** (2018, Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Elizabeth McGovern, Max Irons) – Movie Review

Swedish director Björn Runge’s 2018 The Wife is a hugely engaging and engrossing drama as Joan Castleman (Glenn Close) the wife of the title questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her writer […]

Sep, 25

Great Guy ** (1936, James Cagney, Mae Clarke, James Burke) – Classic Movie Review 7620

James Cagney is the great guy here all right in director John G Blystone’s overly cost-conscious 1936 Great Guy [aka Pluck of the Irish], an independent production from poverty row studio Grand National Pictures, with the […]

Sep, 25

Two for Joy *** (2018, Samantha Morton, Emilia Jones, Billie Piper, Bella Ramsey, Badger Skelton, Daniel Mays) – Movie Review

Samantha Morton is exceptional as a mother deep in depression, in Tom Beard’s striking debut Two for Joy (2018), a bleak but rewarding slice of British social realism. Writer-director Tom Beard’s striking debut Two for Joy (2018) […]

Sep, 25

Russkies ** (1987, Whip Hubley, Joaquin Phoenix, Peter Billingsley) – Classic Movie Review 7619

Director Rick Rosenthal’s 1987 Russkies is the teen version of The Russians Are Coming! focusing on three American kids (including, playing Danny, River Phoenix’s brother Leaf, who later morphed into Joaquin Phoenix) who find a Russian […]

Sep, 25

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