Derek Winnert

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A Simple Plan **** (1998, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe) – Classic Movie Review 2152

Director Sam Raimi’s 1998 real-life thriller deservedly earned good reviews but alas didn’t do that well at the box office. Two brothers and a redneck buddy find a bag with a load of Mob money […]

Feb, 03

Mortdecai ** (2015, Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Paul Bettany, Olivia Munn, Jeff Goldblum) – Movie Review

‘Sophistication has a name’ is the dangerous claim in the tagline for this remarkably unsophisticated movie. Johnny Depp stars in director David Koepp’s caper comedy as roguish, debonair English art dealer Charlie Mortdecai, who has to […]

Jan, 22

At First Sight *** (1998, Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis) – Classic Movie Review 1619

Producer-director Irwin Winkler’s sweetly sensitive 1998 drama stars Mira Sorvino as city woman Amy Benic, a Manhattan architect who meets and falls for a proud, self-sufficient blind bloke called Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer). A massage therapist at a […]

Sep, 01

Being Human ** (1994, Robin Williams, John Turturro, Kelly Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 1570

With the best will in the world, writer-director Bill Forsyth’s 1994 offbeat epic fantasy comedy drama just can’t be judged an unqualified success, though it’s a highly ambitious and intelligent project. Robin Williams teams with the Scottish director […]

Aug, 19

Gloria *** (1999, Sharon Stone, Jeremy Northam, George C Scott, Jean-Luke Figueroa, Cathy Moriarty, Bonnie Bedelia, Mike Starr) – Classic Film Review 1,202

Sharon Stone is a powerful and attractive star presence as a gangster’s moll on the run, in Sidney Lumet’s rickety 1999 Mob thriller remake Gloria. Director Sidney Lumet’s efficient and tolerable 1999 remake of John […]

May, 17

Sabotage *** (2014, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams) – Movie Review

Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as drug cop John ‘Breacher’ Wharton and Sam Worthington plays James ‘Monster’ Murray, two leading members of an elite DEA task force taken down one by one after they rob a vicious […]

May, 07

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen *** (2003, Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Shane West, Jason Flemyng) – Classic Movie Review 1082

Sean Connery stars as adventurer Allan Quatermain in director Stephen Norrington’s lively 2003 fantasy comic book adventure, in which seven famous characters from Victorian fiction combine to stop a maniac known as The Fantom from starting […]

Apr, 12

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