Derek Winnert

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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock *** (1984, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Christopher Lloyd) – Classic Movie Review 1920

Leonard Nimoy takes over the helm as director of the third movie in 1984, in which the starship USS Enterprise is scheduled for scuttling, Bones McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is suffering from a Vulcan mindmeld, the […]

Dec, 06

The Picture of Dorian Gray **** (1945, George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 1887

Hurd Hatfield stars in the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray as the beautiful young man who unwittingly makes a pact with the Devil to keep his youthful beauty while his portrait in the […]

Nov, 25

Get On Up *** (2014, Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd) – Movie Revie

After directing The Help (2011), Tate Taylor helms this conscientious and smoothly made, if uninspired, movie about James Brown. It painstakingly chronicles the Godfather of Soul‘s rise from poverty and parental abuse and abandonment in a turbulent […]

Nov, 18

What Dreams May Come *** (1999, Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr, Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow) – Classic Movie Review 1542

Director Vincent Ward’s ambitious 1999 romantic fantasy drama finds Robin Williams in serious mode, wanting to save the world through love and healing. Some audiences understandably reject it as a ghastly, kitsch, heart-sinking, New Age, pseudo-religious experience, but […]

Aug, 12

Dark City **** (1997, Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Patrick Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 1099

Writer-director Alex Proyas’s extraordinary 1997 sci-fi chiller is a very pleasant surprise. Dark, intense and imaginative, this brilliant looking and exciting movie is excellently crafted by Proyas. Rufus Sewell stars as John Murdoch, who is […]

Apr, 15

Bedazzled *** (2000, Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 930

Brendan Fraser plays a nerdy, socially awkward IT worker and computer buff who meets up with The Devil, a very seductive Satan. She grants him seven wishes in return for selling his soul, tempting him with […]

Mar, 17

The Prophecy ****½ (1995, Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Viggo Mortensen, Eric Stoltz) – Classic Movie Review 817

Christopher Walken is on dazzling form here in 1995 as the angel Gabriel, who comes down to Earth to find a human soul that will end the stalemate of the second war of Heaven. But he’s not […]

Feb, 09

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