Derek Winnert

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Blade ***½ (1998, Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson) – Classic Movie Review 1,065

An ideal Wesley Snipes stars as the vampire/ human hybrid vampire-hunter in the entertaining, blood-thirsty 1998 American superhero film Blade. It is Marvel’s first film success. Director Stephen Norrington’s 1998 blood-thirsty fantasy thriller film Blade casts […]

Apr, 06

The Return of Frank James **** (1940, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper) – Classic Film Review 1064

Director Fritz Lang’s 1940 follow-up to 1939’s huge hit Jesse James is at least the equal of a marvellous original. Once more, the film was universally considered historically inaccurate but again was a commercial success. […]

Apr, 06

Swimming with Sharks **** (1994, Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, Michelle Forbes, Benicio Del Toro, Jerry Levine, T E Russell, Roy Dotrice) – Classic Movie Review 1028

Writer-director George Huang’s dark 1994 black comedy crime psychological drama Swimming with Sharks finds Kevin Spacey playing one of the main sharks swimming in the Hollywood pool in this thrillingly-acted, involving and quite engrossingly written Tinseltown […]

Mar, 31

For Your Eyes Only **** (1981, Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Julian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 1024

The 1981 spy film For Your Eyes Only is James Bond movie number 12, with Roger Moore happily back, a spunky heroine in Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock, and Chaim Topol and Julian Glover oddly […]

Mar, 30

A Time to Kill *** (1996, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey) – Classic Film Review 1015

Based on the John Grisham bestselling legal thriller novel, director Joel Schumacher’s 1996 movie is an acceptable, quite enjoyable but rather tepid and vaguely botched racially-aware legal thriller. In Mississippi, an African American father Carl Lee […]

Mar, 29

Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997, Sandra Bullock) – Bad Movie 2

Director Jan de Bont’s 1997 Keanu Reeves-less sequel to the 1994 megahit is a farrago. Everything about it goes wrong where everything went right the first time. You wouldn’t think it was the same director, […]

Mar, 23

Need for Speed ** (2014, Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Michael Keaton) – Movie Review

Lacking much in the way of credibility, excitement or a sense of fun, Need for Speed is shameless junk. It’s predictable, tension free and so darned boring. With all this rushing around on screen, how can that […]

Mar, 13

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