Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "femme fatale"

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Eye of the Beholder ** (1999, Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, k d lang, Genevieve Bujold, Patrick Bergin, Jason Priestley) – Classic Movie Review 3035

Writer/director Stephan Elliott’s 1999 film Eye of the Beholder stars Ewan McGregor, whose fans are in for another disappointment (after Nora) in this mystery thriller tale of a British secret agent in America, who spies […]

Nov, 07

The Transporter Refueled *** (2015, Ed Skrein, Loan Chabanol, Ray Stevenson) – Movie Review

Statham is missed but Skrein is fine. Camden bloke Ed Skrein, aged 32, has the difficult task of stepping into Jason Statham’s worn-out shoes as The Transporter in this fast-moving, all-action B-movie thriller from director […]

Sep, 03

Black Coal, Thin Ice [Bai ri yan huo] **** (2014, Fan Liao, Lun Mei Gwei, Xuebing Wang) – Movie Review

Writer-director Yi’nan Diao’s cop mystery thriller starts with several dismembered corpses being discovered in a northern China small town and the investigating officer, Zhang (Fan Liao), coming up against a femme fatale (Lun Mei Gwei) working in a laundry. After a […]

Jun, 05

The Killers **** (1964, Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Ronald Reagan, Claude Akins, Norman Fell) – Classic Movie Review 2394

Director Don Siegel’s complex and satisfying 1964 American neo noir crime film The Killers is the second Hollywood adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s 1927 short story, following the hit 1946 version The Killers. Siegel’s film was thought so tough, […]

Apr, 15

Too Late for Tears **** (1949, Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy) – Classic Movie Review 2159

‘She Got What She Wanted… With Lies… With Kisses… With Murder!’ Lizabeth Scott triumphs in her best movie role as Jane Palmer, a ruthless femme fatale who stumbles across a case filled with $60,000 worth […]

Feb, 07

Simon Sez * (1999, Dennis Rodman, Dane Cook, John Pinette) – Bad Movie 9

Beware director Kevin Elders’s appallingly weak 1999 action adventure comedy, starring basketball superstar Dennis Rodman as clever-talking Interpol agent simple Simon, who is attempting to defeat the deadly plans of a stereotypical crazed arms dealer. Dane […]

Nov, 29

Serena *** (2014, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Toby Jones) – Movie Review

Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence are ideally teamed and perfectly cast in this ambitious romantic Western, set in late-1920s Depression-era North Carolina, but filmed in the Czech Republic. And filmed very beautifully. It’s a costly-looking, incredibly handsome, […]

Nov, 08

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