Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Forest Whitaker"

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Smoke (1995, Harvey Keitel) – Classic Film Review 1057

‘Five strangers. Four secrets. Three schemes. Two best friends. And one neighbourhood hangout where the world still makes sense.’ Director Wayne Wang’s 1995 drama, based on the novel by Paul Auster, is a civilised success. […]

Apr, 05

The Color of Money **** (1986, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 873

Paul Newman didn’t attend the Academy Awards ceremony when he won his long-overdue Best Actor Oscar for Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money in 1987. Nor did he when he won an honorary award the […]

Mar, 06

Species **** (1995, Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Marg Helgenberger, Ben Kingsley, Forest Whitaker, Alfred Molina) – Classic Movie Review 822

Roger Donaldson’s 1995 sci-fi chiller film Species piles on the thrilling, edge-of-seat horror. Natasha Henstridge plays a sensual but deadly creature, who can change from a beautiful woman to a killing machine in a flash. […]

Feb, 13

Out of the Furnace **** (2013, Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson, Sam Shepard, Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker) – Movie Review

In America’s economically-depressed North-eastern Rust Belt, two brothers are struggling. While poor steel factory worker Russell lands in prison, his younger brother Rodney becomes involved with one of the most violent and ruthless crime rings in the area. […]

Jan, 29

Phone Booth – Classic Film Review 655

Colin Farrell stars as slick and cocky New York PR guy Stu Shepard , who is trapped in a phone booth by a sniper (Kiefer Sutherland), threatening – on the phone – to shoot him unless […]

Jan, 08

Panic Room **** (2002, Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yokam) – Classic Movie Review 591

Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart (just 12) star in 2002 as Meg and Sarah Altman, a young divorcée and her diabetic daughter who buy a gorgeous, huge, fancy New York apartment, a brownstone mansion that boasts a […]

Dec, 29

Black Nativity – Film Review

Writer-director Kasi Lemmons’s film of Langston Hughes’s famous 1961 African-American stage musical is a well-crafted, conscientious labour of love. A modern-day, reinterpreted story concerns Langston (Jacob Latimore), a street-wise teen raised by his about-to-be-evicted single mother in Baltimore, […]

Dec, 06

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