Derek Winnert

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The Reckoning *** (2002, Willem Dafoe, Paul Bettany, Brian Cox, Tom Hardy, Gina McKee, Vincent Cassel, Marián Aguilera) – Classic Movie Review 670

Paul Bettany scores in the 2002 murder-mystery film The Reckoning as a 14th-century English fugitive priest hiding out with a troupe of actors, who witnesses the murder of a travelling player. Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox […]

Jan, 11

Scream ***** (1996, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, David Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 622

A Nineties generation of post-modern teen horror thrillers is kicked off by director Wes Craven’s tremendously edge-of-seat, knowing 1996 chiller Scream. A slasher maniac is on the loose in an American suburban town called Woodsboro, […]

Jan, 03

Double Jeopardy **** (1999, Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood) – Classic Movie Review 595

The charming but slimy Nick Parsons (played by Bruce Greenwood) frames his nice wife Libby (Ashley Judd) for a killing – himself! She’s tried and convicted of murder and sent to prison. But in jail she […]

Dec, 30

Pineapple Express **** (2008, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Connie Sawyer) – Classic Movie Review 579

Seth Rogen and James Franco are hilarious as a roly-poly process server and slacker pothead called Dale Denton and his amiable, stoned-out marijuana dealer Saul Silver, who sells him a rare new strain of weed […]

Dec, 27

Lift to the Scaffold [Ascenseur pour l’échafaud] ***** (1958, Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Lino Ventura) – Classic Movie Review 544

Director Louis Malle’s 1958 debut feature Ascenseur pour l’échafaud [Lift to the Scaffold] [Elevator to the Gallows] is a brilliant, haunting and complex film noir thriller. It made an international star of the 30-year-old Jeanne […]

Dec, 18

Angels & Demons ** (2009, Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Armin Mueller-Stahl) – Classic Movie Review 3444

Despite all its crazy plotting, frantic direction and overwrought music, Angels & Demons (2009) is mostly dull and dreary, with little grip on its story and characters and hardly any first-rate performances, even from Tom Hanks, Stellan […]

Dec, 17

Minority Report **** (2002, Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton) – Classic Movie Review 484

Tom Cruise teams up with director Steven Spielberg in 2002 to play a ‘precognitive’ cop of the future, Detective John Anderton, who can predict murders and arrest the killers before they act. But then he’s […]

Dec, 07

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