Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "revenge"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "revenge".

The Other Side of Midnight **** (1977, Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone) – Classic Movie Review 8778

Director Charles Jarrott’s 1977 romantic thriller drama The Other Side of Midnight is a long, lavish, entertaining soap-opera wallow, sleekly filmed by director Jarrott about wartime flier Larry (John Beck), who loves and leaves Parisienne […]

Jul, 30

Oldboy [Oldeuboi] ***** (2003, Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang) – Classic Movie Review 8694

Director Chan-wook Park’s horrific 2003 South Korean mystery action thriller Oldboy is still crazy and wildly imaginative after all these years. Dark as pitch, it is an incredible scare and thrill ride. It keeps its […]

Jul, 11

Young Sherlock Holmes **** (1985, Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Freddie Jones, Nigel Stock, Susan Fleetwood) – Classic Movie Review 8533

Director Barry Levinson’s 1985 Young Sherlock Holmes is a film that starts with a bright idea and always knows where it’s going. Screen-writer Chris Columbus, who wrote Gremlins and The Goonies suggests that Sir Arthur […]

Jun, 01

Ma *** (2019, Octavia Spencer, Diana Silvers, Juliette Lewis, Luke Evans) – Movie Review

Octavia Spencer stars in Ma (2019) as a lonely woman called Sue Ann, aka Ma of course, who befriends a group of typically dumb American film teenagers looking for a good time and lets them […]

Jun, 01

Payback **** (1999, Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer, Bill Duke, Kris Kristofferson, William Devane, James Coburn, John Glover, Lucy Liu, Jack Conley) – Classic Movie Review 8,398

Brian Helgeland’s 1999 neo noir crime thriller film Payback stars Mel Gibson as career thief Porter, who recovers from being double-crossed and left to die to exact revenge and get his share of a bloody heist. […]

Apr, 26

My Learned Friend **** (1943, Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns) – Classic Movie Review 8393

Will Hay’s last film My Learned Friend, directed in 1943 by Basil Dearden and Will Hay, is extremely funny and has the bonus of an unusually macabre edge to it. Hay plays seedy lawyer William […]

Apr, 24

On Dangerous Ground **** (1951, Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond) – Classic Movie Review 8189

Director Nicholas Ray’s distinguished 1951 film noir drama On Dangerous Ground stars Robert Ryan as brutal, obsessive city police detective Jim Wilson, who sees the error of his savage ways when he is sent upstate […]

Mar, 02

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.