Derek Winnert

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Death Wish 3 * (1985, Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Martin Balsam, Ed Lauter, Gavan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 4238

Here is director Michael Winner’s third and last Death Wish movie, with Charles Bronson back on the vigilante beat as New York City architect Paul Kersey for more of the same ugly revenge thrills. With his […]

Aug, 25

Dinner Rush **** (2000, Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Sandra Bernhard, John Corbett, Mike McGlone, Vivian Wu, Summer Phoenix) – Classic Movie Review 4237

Take your places, please, for this delicious, subtle banquet of a meal. The posh venue is Italian restaurant proprietor and bookmaker Louis Cropa (Danny Aiello)’s New York Italian diner. It’s a big night and the food is […]

Aug, 25

La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife] ***** (1968, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet) – Classic Movie Review 4199

Writer-director Claude Chabrol is on peak form in the wonderful 1968 French psycho-sexual murder thriller La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife]. And so is his then wife Stéphane Audran as Hélène Desvallées, the smart, unfaithful […]

Aug, 19

Bad Boys ** (1995, Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Téa Leoni, Tchéky Karyo, Theresa Randle, Marg Helgenberger, Joe Pantoliano, Lisa Boyle) – Classic Movie Review 4158

Director Michael Bay’s slick, glossy, violent, formulaic 1995 comedy action thriller has as many bodies as jokes, and more flashy pretty pictures of art deco-ed Miami than believable plot moments. It is an expensive, cynical, […]

Aug, 12

Hidden Agenda **** (1990, Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Mai Zetterling, Jim Norton) – Classic Movie Review 4,147

Ken Loach’s distinguished, controversial 1990 political thriller Hidden Agenda stars Brian Cox as a tough police detective investigating the murder of an American human rights lawyer in Belfast, with the help of the man’s girlfriend […]

Aug, 09

Mississippi Burning **** (1988, Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R Lee Ermey) – Classic Movie Review 4,146

The burning 1988 thriller film Mississippi Burning stars Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe as FBI agents investigating suspected Ku Klux Klan murders of three young civil rights activists in the American Deep South in 1964. […]

Aug, 09

Eyes of Laura Mars ** (1978, Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Raul Julia, René Auberjonois, Lisa Taylor, Darlanne Fluegel) – Classic Movie Review 4141

Director Irvin Kershner’s trashy 1978 occult psycho-chiller Eyes of Laura Mars is frankly incredible and distasteful and has a particularly nasty tone. It is packed with irritating red herrings and climaxes with an unconvincing twist […]

Aug, 08

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