Derek Winnert

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Life or Something Like It ** (2002, Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane, James Gammon, Melissa Errico, Stockard Channing) – Classic Movie Review 3027

Director Stephen Herek’s 2002 romantic comedy drama is a plush, well-acted but largely dreary heart-tugger, in which Angelina Jolie plays Seattle TV news reporter Lanie Kerrigan who interviews a psychic homeless man (Tony Shalhoub) about […]

Nov, 02

Van Wilder: Party Liaison * (2002, Ryan Reynolds, Tim Matheson, Tara Reid, Kal Penn) – Classic Movie Review 3007

Director Walt Becker’s 2002 comedy is more or less National Lampoon’s Animal House is revisited 25 years on, with one of its stars. Tim Matheson, now playing the workaholic dad of eternal student slacker Van […]

Oct, 24

The Passenger [Professione: Reporter] **** (1975, Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry, Steven Berkoff) – Classic Movie Review 2841

‘I used to be somebody else… but I traded myself in.’ – David Locke. Co-writer/director Michelangelo Antonioni decorates – or rather obscures – Mark Peploe’s intriguing 1975 thriller plot with a great deal of fine […]

Aug, 23

Scream 3 *** (2000, David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Patrick Dempsey, Parker Posey, Matt Kesslar, Lance Henriksen, Liev Schreiber, Scott Foley, Emily Mortimer) – Classic Movie Review 2,831

The survivors of Scream 2 (1997) are back for a third bout – supposedly the final chapter – of slasher terror in Scream 3 (2000), as cash-in film-makers make a copycat movie called Stab 3, […]

Aug, 18

Man-Made Monster *** (1941, Lon Chaney Jnr, Lionel Atwill, Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson, Samuel S Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 2679

When Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi dropped out of director George Waggner’s sci-fi horror movie co-feature, Lon Chaney Jnr took over the role intended for Karloff and made his horror film debut. Thus he gets his […]

Jul, 08

Flight to Mars *** (1951, Cameron Mitchell, Marguerite Chapman, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston, John Litel, Richard Gaines, Morris Ankrum) – Classic Movie Review 2561

  Director Lesley Selander’s pioneering 1951 low-budget sci-fi movie quickie, produced by Walter Mirisch for poverty row studios Monogram, stars Cameron Mitchell, Marguerite Chapman, Arthur Franz, Virginia Huston, John Litel, Richard Gaines and Morris Ankrum. […]

Jun, 06

The Innocent Sleep *** (1996, Rupert Graves, Michael Gambon, Annabella Sciorra, Franco Nero, Oliver Cotton, Graham Crowden, John Hannah) – Classic Movie Review 2478

Director Scott Michell’s 1996 British thriller stars Rupert Graves who plays a real-life English north-country tramp called Alan Terry living homeless outside beside London’s Tower Bridge. One night he witnesses a killing, a mob execution. […]

May, 13

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