Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "New Year’s Eve"

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200 Cigarettes ** (1999, Martha Plimton, Christina Ricci, Ben Affleck, Janeane Garafolo, Courtney Love, Kate Hudson, Casey Affleck) – Classic Movie Review 4222

A great cast is assembled for director Risa Bramon Garcia’s 1999 comedy-drama look at the dating game for twentyish New York singles on New Year’s Eve, 1981. But, with a ropey script, hot stars are just […]

Aug, 24

Il Bidone [The Swindlers] **** (1955, Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Franco Fabrizi, Giulietta Masina) – Classic Movie Review 4202

Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart and Franco Fabrizi star as small-time crooks Augusto, Picasso and Roberto, who disguise themselves as priests to swindle the poor, in co-writer/ director Federico Fellini’s 1955 Italian neo-realist drama. But, when […]

Aug, 19

J’Embrasse Pas [I Don’t Kiss] *** (1991, Manuel Blanc, Philippe Noiret, Emmanuelle Béart, Hélène Vincent, Jean-Christophe Bouvet) – Classic Movie Review 3634

Manuel Blanc stars as Pierre Lacaze, a sensitive French provincial young lad who leaves his stifling family to start a new life in Paris, hoping to become an actor. But instead he finds homelessness, poverty […]

Apr, 30

Ghostbusters II *** (1989, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Peter MacNicol, David Margulies, Kurt Fuller, Janet Margolin) – Classic Movie Review 3265

A massive river of ectoplasm and renewed spectral activity have hit New York. Who ya gonna call again? Yes, the retired Ghostbusters get back in business. The whole team of ghostbusters is back from the 1984 original super-hit in producer-director […]

Jan, 13

Four Rooms * (1995, Tim Roth, Bruce Willis, Quentin Tarantino, Jennifer Beals, Paul Calderon, Salma Hayek, Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Marisa Tomei) – Classic Movie Review 3056

Tim Roth plays an unlikely bellboy visiting the title’s four hotel rooms in this lacklustre 1995 portmanteau movie comedy, showing clearly why these kinds of films are out of fashion. Even good directors, it seems, […]

Nov, 14

Survivor ** (2015, Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Dylan McDermott, Frances de la Tour, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Roger Rees) – Movie Review

Milla Jovovich stars as a kickass US State Department employee whose job on her new posted to the American embassy in London is stopping terrorists from getting into the US. With her brilliant instincts, she smells […]

Jun, 03

After the Thin Man **** (1936, William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 2263

The story for the 1936 sequel film After the Thin Man is specially written by legendary Dashiell Hammett, based on his sleuth characters of Nick and Nora in his 1934 novel The Thin Man but […]

Mar, 14

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