Derek Winnert

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White Heat ***** (1949, James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Margaret Wycherly, Edmond O’Brien) – Classic Movie Review 147

James Cagney is brilliant as psychotic, epileptic gangster Cody Jarrett, fixated on his conniving mother Ma Jarrett (Margaret Wycherly), in the awesome 1949 gangster film White Heat. A perfectly cast James Cagney is brilliant as […]

Aug, 10

Miller’s Crossing ***** (1990, Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro, Marcia Gay Harden, Jon Polito) – Classic Movie Review 126

With Joel directing, Ethan producing and both of them writing, the Coen Brothers’ edge-of-seat Mob thriller is scarily dynamic, urgently propelled and spectacularly stylish. Stylised and jokey near to the point of parody, it stops […]

Aug, 04

Scarface ***** (1983, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, F Murray Abraham, Robert Loggia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Miriam Colon, Paul Shenar, Harris Yulin, Pepe Serna) – Classic Movie Review 51

‘The world is yours.’ Director Brian De Palma’s 1983 all-stops-out remake of Howard Hawks’s 1932 classic gangster thriller Scarface with Paul Muni is now a classic in its own right. Al Pacino appears in one […]

Jul, 15

The Godfather: Part III ****½ (1990, Al Pacino, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, Sofia Coppola, Raf Vallone, Donal Donnelly) – Classic Movie Review 28

Michael Corleone: ‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.’ Quibbles apart, Francis Ford Coppola’s 1990 crime film The Godfather: Part III is a worthy successor to his first two films. There […]

Jul, 07

The Godfather: Part II ***** (1974, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton, Lee Strasberg, Michael V Gazzo, Troy Donahue, G D Spradlin, Richard Bright, Morgana King) – Classic Movie Review 3

‘Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.’ Francis Ford Coppola’s awesome six-Oscar-winning Mafia movie The Godfather: Part II is a more than worthy successor to his 1972 original. ‘Keep your friends close and your […]

Jun, 24

The Godfather ***** (1972, Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, John Cazale, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton, Abe Vigoda, Morgana King) – Classic Movie Review 2

Francis Ford Coppola summed it up: ‘Whatever immortality The Godfather films achieve is due to the great acting and Mario Puzo’s writing.’ Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall were all Oscar nominated as Best […]

Jun, 23

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