Derek Winnert

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Risky Business **** (1983, Tom Cruise, Rebecca DeMornay) – Classic Movie Review 1515

Writer-director Paul Brickman’s key 80s Brat Pack teen comedy turned the 21-year-old Tom Cruise into a hot young star in his fifth movie after Endless Love, Taps, The Outsiders and Losin’ It. Costing $6million, Risky Business […]

Aug, 03

Taps *** (1981, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, George C Scott, Tom Cruise) – Classic Movie Review 1510

‘We have a home here. We think it’s something worth defending.’ – Cadet Major Brian Moreland. Director Harold Becker’s 1981 movie is one of the key youth-oriented films of the 80s. It’s Timothy Hutton’s follow-up […]

Aug, 02

Mission: Impossible II *** (2000, Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 1290

Director John Woo’s costly (£125million) 2000 sequel to the smash-hit 1996 original sees Tom Cruise return as IMF secret agent Ethan Hunt, who delivers more flashy, scrappy high-octane action in this second brain-in-neutral, edge-of-seat blockbuster. […]

Jun, 04

Mission: Impossible *** (1996, Tom Cruise, Jean Reno, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Ving Rhames, Vanessa Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 1289

Director Brian De Palma’s flashy 1996 blockbuster is a really scrappy high-octane action spy thriller movie, but it does deliver a lot of flash and some exciting edge-of-seat action. Remotely based on the popular 60s […]

Jun, 04

Edge of Tomorrow *** (2014, Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt) – Movie Review

Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt form a surprisingly effective tough-guy duo as two futuristic army soldier types defending the planet from aliens in director Doug Liman’s explosive, brainy blockbuster. Somehow, and please don’t ask me […]

May, 30

The Color of Money **** (1986, Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro, Bill Cobbs, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 873

Paul Newman didn’t attend the Academy Awards ceremony when he won his long-overdue Best Actor Oscar for Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money in 1987. Nor did he when he won an honorary award the […]

Mar, 06

Knight and Day **** (2010, Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard) – Classic Movie Review 803

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz go all out for action in this most preposterous of comedy thrillers that makes the impossible plot of Mission: Impossible look, well, possible. Idiotic though director James Mangold’s 2010 movie […]

Feb, 05

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