Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "revenge"

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The Stepford Wives ** (2004, Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken) – Classic Movie Review 1382

Nicole Kidman looks like she’d prefer to be somewhere else during director Frank Oz’s cheesy 2004 black comedy remake of the 1974 chiller about the too-perfect wives of a New England village. The first half hour […]

Jul, 01

A Fistful of Dollars [Per un pugno di dollari] ***** (1964, Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch) – Classic Movie Review 1,366

A Fistful of Dollars (1964) – Per un pugno di dollari in Italian – is the first of writer-director Sergio Leone’s much admired, incredibly popular, now cult classic series of spaghetti Westerns. It was eventually a huge […]

Jun, 28

Dark City **** (1950, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 1322

Director William Dieterle’s 1950 classic film noir thriller stars a young-looking 27-year-old Charlton Heston, who makes a strong impression in his film debut as Danny Haley, a war hero turned villain running from a vengeful killer. […]

Jun, 14

Léon *** [Léon: The Professional] (1994, Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, Danny Aiello) – Classic Movie Review 1244

This slick but reprehensible 1994 English-language French urban neo noir thriller is directed with knowing flash that is all surface and no depth by co-producer/ writer/ director Luc Besson. His story about an illiterate mob […]

May, 24

Blue Ruin (2013, Macon Blair) – Movie Review

The film noir is profitably revisited by writer-director Jeremy Saulnier, who provides an unforgettable role for Macon Blair as Dwight. The little-known actor grabs his chance in the spotlight beautifully. First seen with the kind […]

May, 01

The Other Woman (2014, Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann) – Movie Review

After level-headed lawyer Cameron Diaz discovers that her hunky boyfriend Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a married man, she soon meets the Mann he’s married to, Leslie Mann, the neurotic, clingy, whingey wife he’s been cheating on. Diaz tries to shake […]

Apr, 24

Spider-Man 3 **** (2007, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rosemary Harris, J K Simmons, James Cromwell) – Classic Movie Review 1106

The final film in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy cost a whopping $258million and was the most expensive film of all time at release but it became the most financially successful film in the series worldwide. […]

Apr, 18

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