Derek Winnert

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Serpico ***** (1973, Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Tony Roberts, M Emmet Walsh, F Murray Abraham) – Classic Movie Review 1190

Director Sidney Lumet’s edge-of-seat 1973 real-life film about corruption in the New York Police Department stars a perfectly cast 33-year-old Al Pacino in a scalding, mesmerising performance as plain-clothes cop New York Frank Serpico cop […]

May, 09

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

Mumford (1999, Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Jason Lee) – Classic Film Review 1115

Producer-writer-director Lawrence Kasdan‘s pleasant enough 1999 film stars Loren Dean as a man who assumes a false identity as a psychologist called Dr Mickey Mumford and uses his intuitive skills to help the neurotic residents of a […]

Apr, 19

Proof of Life **** (2000, Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, David Caruso, Pamela Reed) – Classic Movie Review 1032

Director Taylor Hackford’s 2000 thriller is the one where Meg Ryan met and fell for Russell Crowe in real life. It is a scalding, epic action thriller about kidnap and retrieval. Alice Bowman (Ryan) begs […]

Apr, 01

Training Day ***½ (2001, Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Harris Yulin, Cliff Curtis, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Macy Gray, Eva Mendes) – Classic Film Review 970

Director Antoine Fuqua’s tough, well-made but depressing 2001 LA police thriller stars Ethan Hawke and Denzel Washington, who land a couple of really showy roles as good cop, bad cop. They are rookie Jake Hoyt and seasoned Detective […]

Mar, 23

Mean Girls **** (2004, Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Lacey Chabert) – Classic Movie Review 967

Lindsay Lohan hits the jackpot this time in director Mark S Waters’s stingingly witty 2004 teen movie. Starting at a new school, 16-year-old Cady Heron (Lohan) soon joins The Plastics, the A-list clan clique of queen bitches. […]

Mar, 22

The Rules of Attraction **** (2002, James Van Der Beek, Ian Somerhalder, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, Kip Pardue, Kate Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 956

Producer-writer-director Roger Avary’s 2002 corrosive black comedy, based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, is crazy tale of intertwining lives at college, centring on a frustrated love quartet. James Van […]

Mar, 22

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