Derek Winnert

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Lost Highway ***½ (1997, Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Gary Busey, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Loggia, Robert Blake) – Classic Movie Review 1315

Co-writer/director David Lynch’s infuriating, but imaginative and thrilling-looking 1997 surreal thriller film Lost Highway stars Bill Pullman as saxophonist Fred Madison, who dreams that he and his wife Renée (Patricia Arquette) are being watched by […]

Jun, 11

Murder on the Orient Express **** (1974, Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Vanessa Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 1304

Director Sidney Lumet’s sumptuous, famous 1974 film mystery set a cinema trend, starting a long, profitable train of Agatha Christie hit movies. This film’s tagline is ‘The greatest cast of suspicious characters ever involved in murder.’ […]

Jun, 07

Death on the Nile **** (1978, Peter Ustinov, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, David Niven, Jon Finch, Jack Warden, George Kennedy, Simon MacCorkindale, Harry Andrews, Jane Birkin, Mia Farrow, Olivia Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 1299

Peter Ustinov’s Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a selfish heiress (Lois Chiles) on a Nile steamer, where all are suspects, in the 1978 film Death on the Nile. Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith […]

Jun, 07

Basic Instinct *** (1992, Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Jeanne Tripplehorn, George Dzundza, Denis Arndt, Leilani Sarelle, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 1287

Director Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 shocker is a full-blooded, full-throttle sex and violence farrago of a neo-noir erotic thriller. It sees Michael Douglas settle comfortably back in Fatal Attraction mode and once again on the streets […]

Jun, 03

Klute ***** (1971, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Rita Gam, Nathan George, Dorothy Tristan, Jean Stapleton) – Classic Movie Review 1153

Producer-director Alan J Pakula’s dazzling and brilliantly acted classic 1971 thriller is a real mesmerising humdinger. It’s the first film of Pakula’s unofficial political paranoia trilogy that continued triumphantly with The Parallax View (1974) and […]

Apr, 28

InterMission *** (2003, Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy, Kelly Macdonald, Shirley Henderson, Colm Meaney) – Classic Movie Review 1103

Romance and violence are the main stands of director John Crowley’s intriguing 2003 patchwork of Irish life, which unravels as the lives of a bunch of losers intersect in Dublin. Colin Farrell stars as a petty […]

Apr, 17

The Spider Woman ***½ (1943, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard, Dennis Hoey, Mary Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 1,027

The thoroughly enjoyable 1943 mystery film The Spider Woman sees Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes investigating the ‘pajama suicides’ case. Gale Sondergaard’s Adrea Spedding proves a worthy adversary. ‘I’m so sorry we have nothing in the […]

Mar, 31

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