Derek Winnert

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The Insider **** (1999, Al Pacino, Russell Crowe and Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 12,225

The 1999 film The Insider stars Al Pacino, Russell Crowe and Christopher Plummer, and is a superb, stylish real-life thriller given plenty of full-throttle treatment by director Michael Mann, who also made Heat with Pacino. […]

Jul, 08

Official Secrets **** (2019, Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes) – Movie Review

Keira Knightley is well cast and on excellent form in Official Secrets (2019) as British Intelligence whistle-blower Katharine Gun, who leaked to the British press a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying […]

Oct, 24

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House **** (2017, Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Marton Csokas) – Movie Review

Fascinating story, really well told. Neeson excellent. Writer-director Peter Landesman’s riveting 2017 biographical historical drama Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House is a fascinating story, really well told. Landesman’s screenplay is most satisfying […]

May, 21

The Post **** (2017, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood) – Movie Review

Director Steven Spielberg’s conscientious and involving if not quite inspired biographical historical drama tells the dynamite story of The Washington Post newspaper publisher Kay Graham and her gung-ho editor Ben Bradlee, who make the decision to risk […]

Jan, 20

Kill the Messenger ***½ (2014, Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta, Lucas Hedges) – Movie Review

Jeremy Renner is excellent in an intense, low-key performance as the real-life Gary Webb, a San Jose Mercury News journalist reporter who in 1996 exposes the CIA’s role in importing cocaine into California to raise funds […]

Mar, 05

The Deadly Affair ***** (1966, James Mason, Maximilian Schell, Simone Signoret, Harry Andrews, Harriet Andersson) – Classic Movie Review 2113

Producer-director Sidney Lumet’s important, serious-minded 1966 spy thriller from John le Carré’s Call for the Dead is, as it should be, chilling, dour and downbeat, but rivetingly compelling. James Mason plays le Carré’s famous British […]

Jan, 25

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