Derek Winnert

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Oldboy [Oldeuboi] ***** (2003, Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang) – Classic Movie Review 8694

Director Chan-wook Park’s horrific 2003 South Korean mystery action thriller Oldboy is still crazy and wildly imaginative after all these years. Dark as pitch, it is an incredible scare and thrill ride. It keeps its […]

Jul, 11

Split *** (2016, James McAvoy, Betty Buckley, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula) – Movie Review

James McAvoy luxuriates in his huge star role(s) as a split-personality mental patient with no less than 24 identifiable separate personalities, who kidnaps, imprisons and torments three understandably terrified girls (Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, […]

Jan, 20

Rupture ***½ (2016, Noomi Rapace, Michael Chiklis, Peter Stormare, Lesley Manville, Kerry Bishé) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Steven Shainberg’s 2016 movie is really good stuff, engrossing and original, pitched successfully somewhere between a thriller, sci-fi and a horror movie. So it is satisfyingly different from your average chiller movie. Noomi Rapace […]

Nov, 04

Night People *** (1954, Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam, Walter Abel, Buddy Ebsen) – Classic Movie Review 3498

Producer-writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s nimble and nifty 1954 Cold War suspense thriller Night People stars Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk, Rita Gam, Walter Abel and Buddy Ebsen, who greatly help to enliven the story about the […]

Mar, 24

Arabian Nights [Il fiore delle mille e una notte] **** (1974, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Merli, Ines Pellegrini) – Classic Movie Review 3202

Co-writer/director Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1974 movie is the third and finest of his Trilogy of Life movies of mediaeval stories after The Decameron (1971) and The Canterbury Tales (1972), in which tales from Thousand and […]

Dec, 31

101 Dalmatians ***** (1961, voices of Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, Cate Bauer, J Pat O’Malley, Martha Wentworth, Ben Wright) – Classic Movie Review 2223

Directors Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton S Luske and Clyde Geronimi’s beloved 1961 Walt Disney animated feature-length classic is well above par for the studio’s troubled course from the late 50s through the 60s and the 70s, […]

Feb, 28

Oldboy – Film Review

Josh Brolin is great as Joe Doucett, an advertising executive who is abducted and locked into solitary confinement for 20 years. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive quest to find out why he […]

Dec, 05

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