Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "murder"

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Twilight of Honor [The Charge Is Murder] *** (1963, Richard Chamberlain, Claude Rains, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams) – Classic Movie Review 4630

Richard Chamberlain, a TV superstar as Dr Kildare, gives a smooth acting turn in his first movie starring role as a young lawyer who defends a suspected murderer, in the 1963 courtroom thriller film Twilight […]

Nov, 10

Mum & Dad **½ (2008, Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Ainsley Howard) – Classic Movie Review 4624

Writer-director Steven Sheil’s 2008 low-budget British horror thriller film is well made and resourceful but deeply unpleasant. It starts with young Polish Heathrow Airport office cleaner Lena (Olga Fedori) accompanying an apparently friendly co-worker called […]

Nov, 10

In the Electric Mist *** (2009, Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Kelly Macdonald, Justina Machado, Ned Beatty, James Gammon) – Classic Movie Review 4624

Tommy Lee Jones is at his excellent haunted best in a tailor-made role as Dave Robicheaux, a Louisiana cop who finds a connection between the New Orleans murder of a prostitute and the discovery of […]

Nov, 09

Frankenstein *** (2004, Parker Posey, Vincent Perez, Adam Goldberg, Thomas Kretschmann, Michael Madsen) – Classic Movie Review 4623

Director Marcus Nispel’s stylish, well-acted and engrossing 2004 contemporary horror thriller, set in present-day America, is based on a concept by Dean R Koontz and written by John Shiban, inspired by Mary Shelley’s famous tale. Parker Posey and Adam […]

Nov, 09

Suburban Mayhem *** (2006, Emily Barclay, Michael Dorman, Steve Bastoni, Laurence Breuls, Anthony Hayes, Mia Wasikowska) – Classic Movie Review 4530

The 22-year-old Emily Barclay, award-winner as most promising newcomer for In My Father’s Den in 2005, edges nearer stardom for her stirring, unnerving performance in this striking, sexy little 2006 Aussie black comedy as a […]

Oct, 24

Hollywood Homicide ** (2003, Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwod, Isaiah Washington, Keith David, Dwight Yoakam, Lolita Davidovich, Martin Landau) – Classic Movie Review 4520

Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett make an unlikely pair of LAPD cop buddies in co-writer/ co-producer/ director Ron Shelton’s slapdash 2003 action comedy thriller, investigating a thin yet hard-to-follow plot about the in-club murder of […]

Oct, 24

Firewall ** (2006, Harrison Ford, Virginia Madsen, Paul Bettany, Alan Arkin, Robert Forster, Robert Patrick) – Classic Movie Review 4517

In director Richard Loncraine’s 2006 movie, Harrison Ford is back in the kind of old style crime thriller that he used to do so well. Ford plays a bank security specialist called Jack Stanfield, who has to rob the […]

Oct, 23

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