Derek Winnert

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Flawless **** (1999, Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller) – Classic Movie Review 2020

Writer-director Joel Schumacher’s rather weird and wonderful 1999 comedy drama hits the spot, a success in large part to do with its two star performances. Though both cast to type – just imagine if they’d […]

Dec, 30

Let’s Be Cops * (2014, Jake Johnson, Damon Wayans Jr) – Movie Review

Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr play struggling buddies Ryan and Justin, who dress up as cops for a costume party, become babe magnet somebodies, and keep the charade going after buying a cop car on […]

Aug, 28

48 Hrs. ***** (1982, Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O’Toole) – Classic Movie Review 1,568

Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy are on blistering form in director Walter Hill’s thrilling 1982 blockbuster 48 Hrs., one of the all-time great buddy-buddy action movies. Nolte plays Jack Cates, a middle-aged hard-nosed cop, and […]

Aug, 18

Breathless [À bout de souffle] ***** (1960, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg) – Classic Movie Review 1392

Director Jean-Luc Godard followed three short films with his first and still most celebrated 1960 full-length movie À bout de souffle [Breathless]. A dazzlingly realised homage to American B-movie thrillers, it was written while he was shooting […]

Jul, 04

Serpico ***** (1973, Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Tony Roberts, M Emmet Walsh, F Murray Abraham) – Classic Movie Review 1190

Director Sidney Lumet’s edge-of-seat 1973 real-life film about corruption in the New York Police Department stars a perfectly cast 33-year-old Al Pacino in a scalding, mesmerising performance as plain-clothes cop New York Frank Serpico cop […]

May, 09

The Music Box ***** (1932, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) – Classic Movie Review 1056

‘Mr Laurel and Mr Hardy decided to re-organize and re-supervise their entire financial structure. So they took their $3.80 and went into business.’ Directed by James Parrott, this 1932 film is Stan Laurel and Oliver […]

Apr, 05

The Jacket (2005) – Classic Film Review 913

Director John Maybury’s ambitious, eye-catching 2005 film is a stylish, arty and impenetrably baffling puzzle thriller. Adrien Brody stars as a US Gulf War soldier who is shot in the head in Iraq in 1991 […]

Mar, 15

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