Derek Winnert

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Underworld ***** (1927, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 12,099

Director Josef von Sternberg’s influential 1927 American silent crime thriller film Underworld [Paying the Penalty] is an impressively fast and furious tale of mobsters during Prohibition. It is one of the earliest gangster movies, and […]

May, 06

Essex Boys * (2000, Sean Bean, Charlie Creed-Miles, Alex Kingston, Tom Wilkinson) – Classic Movie Review 1995

Co-writer- director Terri Winsor’s 2000 thriller stars Sean Bean, who plays, very unconvincingly, a violent Essex cabbie called Jason Locke, who falls on hard times and tries to make ends meet by becoming the personal […]

Dec, 23

Devil in a Blue Dress ****½ (1995, Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals) – Classic Movie Review 1954

Writer-director Carl Franklin’s Chandler-esque 1995 neo-noir whodunit provides a perfect role for Denzel Washington, who is great as 40s LA private eye Easy Rawlins. Based on the novel by Walter Mosley, this is a superbly […]

Dec, 14

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