Derek Winnert

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Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves *** (1991, Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Alan Rickman, Christian Slater) – Classic Movie Review 1793

Kevin Reynolds directs this ambitious, enormously popular, big-budget 1991 Robin Hood movie plainly, unimaginatively and hesitantly, struggling to get the pace and mood right. A hefty re-edit, with about 20 minutes shorn from the 143-minute running […]

Nov, 01

The Abyss **** (1989, Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn) – Classic Movie Review 1293

Writer-director James Cameron’s expensive 1989 sci-fi thriller was a very rare box-office flop for him, taking only $90million worldwide. It’s hard to know quite what went wrong. It looks stunning and the trick work is […]

Jun, 05

My Life So Far **½ (1999, Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Irène Jacob, Robert Norman, Tchéky Karyo) – Classic Movie Review 1270

In 1999 Hugh Hudson directed My Life So Far, a bittersweet film that covers the start of a boy’s life during the early 20th century. Colin Firth gives a typically attractive star turn as the […]

May, 31

The Perfect Storm *** (2000, George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C Reilly, William Fichtner) – Classic Movie Review 999

In the stirring, fact-based 2000 adventure drama film The Perfect Storm, set in New England in October 1991, a team of fisherman head off aboard the Andrea Gail on a stormy fishing trip into the […]

Mar, 26

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

Scarface ***** (1983, Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, F Murray Abraham, Robert Loggia, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Miriam Colon, Paul Shenar, Harris Yulin, Pepe Serna) – Classic Movie Review 51

‘The world is yours.’ Director Brian De Palma’s 1983 all-stops-out remake of Howard Hawks’s 1932 classic gangster thriller Scarface with Paul Muni is now a classic in its own right. Al Pacino appears in one […]

Jul, 15

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