Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "fugitive"

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Dogville **** (2003, Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany) – Classic Movie Review 1496

Director Lars von Trier’s challenging, not to say intimidating, 2003 epic is a minimalist parable playing out on a stage-like set. It stars Nicole Kidman, who gives a tour de force in one of her […]

Jul, 30

To Have and Have Not ***** (1944, Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall) – Classic Movie Review 1346

Producer-director Howard Hawks’s 1944 wartime adventure enjoys the enormous benefit of introducing the star pair of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall to the screen, in the first of the real-life couple’s series of four movies together. It […]

Jun, 21

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ***** (2000, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh) – Classic Movie Review 1326

Director Ang Lee’s dazzling, Oscar-winning 2000 epic martial-arts thriller is an instant modern classic. After a couple of box-office failures in America, this glorious-looking Chinese movie reconnected the director with a wide public in a sweet surprise success […]

Jun, 15

Inception **** (2010, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page) – Classic Movie Review 801

A fired-up Leonardo DiCaprio is exactly the right fit for writer-director Christopher Nolan’s super-thief Dom Cobb, skilled in stealing valuable secrets from the subconscious during the dream state. Cobb’s offered a chance to get his […]

Feb, 05

Thelma and Louise ***** (1991, Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Brad Pitt, Michael Madsen, Christopher McDonald) – Classic Movie Review 702

Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon enjoy roles to die for as female buddies Thelma and Louise in director Ridley Scott’s rousing 1991 film, advertised as the first feminist, buddy-buddy road-movie. A weekend break from the […]

Jan, 15

US Marshals ***½ (1998, Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr, Joe Pantoliano, Irène Jacob, Kate Nelligan, Patrick Malahide) – Classic Movie Review 596

In 1998 Tommy Lee Jones enjoyably re-creates his Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winning role from the 1993 The Fugitive as US federal marshal Sam Gerard in this pacy, solidly entertaining, if slightly less thrilling sequel to […]

Dec, 30

Stagecoach ***** (1939, John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Louise Platt, George Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 386

‘My name’s John Ford and I make Westerns,’ said the director, and this double Oscar-winning 1939 masterwork is his most famous. In it, a motley crew of misfits tries to cross the New Mexico Territory in a […]

Nov, 10

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