Derek Winnert

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My Name Is Joe **** (1998, Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, Gary Lewis, David McKay, Lorraine McIntosh, Anne-Marie Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 4233

The best and worst of life on one of the toughest Glasgow estates are observed in writer Paul Laverty and director Ken Loach’s raw and insightful 1998 film. Peter Mullan stars as the man named Joe, an out […]

Aug, 25

Transsiberian **** (2008, Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Eduardo Noriega, Kate Mara, Ben Kingsley, Thomas Kretschmann) – Classic Movie Review 4083

Co-writer/ director Brad Anderson’s thrilling, uber-tense crime mystery drama is set on the Transsiberian express train from China to Moscow, the venue for chase, deception and murder when American couple Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer) […]

Aug, 13

Bad Boys II *** (2004, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Mollà, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle, Michael Shannon, Joe Pantoliano, Jon Seda) – Classic Movie Review 4159

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence play bad cop, bad cop on the trail of evil Cuban drug lord ‘Johnny’ Tapia (Jordi Mollà) in director Michael Bay’s wisecracking, brutal, wayward but incredibly exciting 2004 action adventure sequel […]

Aug, 12

Bad Boys ** (1995, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Téa Leoni, Tchéky Karyo, Theresa Randle, Marg Helgenberger, Joe Pantoliano, Lisa Boyle) – Classic Movie Review 4158

Director Michael Bay’s slick, glossy, violent, formulaic 1995 comedy action thriller has as many bodies as jokes, and more flashy pretty pictures of art deco-ed Miami than believable plot moments. It is an expensive, cynical, […]

Aug, 12

Light Sleeper *** (1992, Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon, Mary Beth Hurt, Victor Garber, David Spade, Jane Adams) – Classic Movie Review 4154

Writer-director Paul Schrader’s 1992 Breathless-style thriller stars Willem Dafoe as a reformed addict drug pusher on the edge of middle-age, having a bad time with his upscale clients. Then he gets mixed up in murder during […]

Aug, 10

London Kills Me **½ (1991, Justin Chadwick, Steven Mackintosh, Emer McCourt, Roshan Seth, Fiona Shaw, Brad Dourif, Tony Hargarth, Naveen Andrews, Stevan Rimkus) – Classic Movie Review 4148

Screeen-writer/ director Hanif Kureishi’s 1991 drama stars Justin Chadwick as a poverty-stricken, homeless, shoeless youth of 20 called Clint Eastwood, who is unable to find a job but wants to get of London’s drug world by taking a job as […]

Aug, 09

The Dunwich Horror *** (1970, Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Sam Jaffe, Lloyd Bochner, Talia Shire) – Classic Movie Review 3868

Director Daniel Haller’s creepy and atmospheric 1970 occult thriller is cannily adapted from a short story by H P Lovecraft. It stars Dean Stockwell as weird Wilbur Whateley, the handsome warlock, and Sandra Dee as […]

Jun, 15

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