Derek Winnert

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True Crime ** (1999, Clint Eastwood, James Woods, Isaiah Washington, LisaGay Hamilton) – Classic Movie Review 1828

Producer-director-star Clint Eastwood’s 1999 potboiler thriller has stock characters and a hokey old plot about Steve Everett, a burnt-out wreck of a journalist (Eastwood). The Oakland Tribune journalist Everett, a man consumed with desire for […]

Nov, 10

Last Dance *** (1996, Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 1484

Director Bruce Beresford’s 1996 release stars Sharon Stone, who gives one of her least typical performances in this incredibly depressing drama. It was dubbed Dead Woman Walking as it’s about Cindy Liggett, a female killer […]

Jul, 27

Lost Highway ***½ (1997, Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Gary Busey, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Loggia, Robert Blake) – Classic Movie Review 1315

Co-writer/director David Lynch’s infuriating, but imaginative and thrilling-looking 1997 surreal thriller film Lost Highway stars Bill Pullman as saxophonist Fred Madison, who dreams that he and his wife Renée (Patricia Arquette) are being watched by […]

Jun, 11

My Favourite Brunette **** (1947, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre) – Classic Movie Review 1277

In director Elliott Nugent’s 1947 hit comedy, Bob Hope’s Favorite Brunette is of course his Road series companion Dorothy Lamour.  Filmed partly on location in San Francisco and Pebble Beach, California, the movie’s both a […]

Jun, 01

Dead Man Walking ***** (1995, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn) – Classic Movie Review 1007

Writer-director Tim Robbins’s triumphant 1995 film stars his then life partner Susan Sarandon, who won a highly deserved Best Actress Oscar portraying the real-life nun who helps a convicted killer (Oscar-nominated Best Actor Sean Penn) […]

Mar, 28

The Chamber ** (1996, Gene Hackman, Chris O’Donnell, Faye Dunaway, Robert Prosky, Harve Presnell) – Classic Movie Review 1006

Director James Foley’s 1996 legal thriller is another lacklustre adaptation from a John Grisham novel, saved by Gene Hackman’s impeccable performance as a racist bigoted bomber, Sam Cayhall, whose rookie lawyer grandson Adam Hall (Chris […]

Mar, 28

Capote **** (2005, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Clifton Collins Jr, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 796

Philip Seymour Hoffman won the 2006 Best Actor Oscar for his eye-catching, brio performance as the destructively selfish gay author Truman Capote in director Bennett Miller’s gruelling, disturbing and depressing story of the five years Capote spent on […]

Feb, 03

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