Derek Winnert

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The Game **** (1997, Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, Deborah Kara Unger, Peter Donat, Carroll Baker) – Classic Movie Review 10,401

Director David Fincher’s exciting and stylish 1997 American puzzle thriller The Game stars an ideally cast Michael Douglas as very wealthy San Francisco investment banker Nicholas Van Orton, given a mysterious gift for his 48th […]

Oct, 11

WarGames **** (1983, Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin) – Classic Movie Review 9392

Director John Badham‘s 1983 thriller WarGames is a bang on target sci-fi fantasy adventure starring Matthew Broderick as teenage wiz kid David Lightman, who unwittingly taps his home computer into a top secret United States military super-computer […]

Feb, 16

The Games **½ (1970, Michael Crawford, Ryan O’Neal, Charles Aznavour, Stanley Baker) – Classic Movie Review 9300

A quartet of runners gets ready for the 1960 Rome Olympics marathon in Michael Winner’s acceptable, occasionally exciting 1970 sports drama The Games, which is attractively filmed on globetrotting locations. Though the schematic yarn, loosely […]

Jan, 25

The Last of Sheila **** (1973, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, Ian McShane, Raquel Welch, James Mason) – Classic Movie Review 8099

A fine near all-star cast enlivens producer-director Herbert Ross’s elegant 1973 satirical murder mystery The Last of Sheila, ingeniously written, unexpectedly, by mystery buffs Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, who set loose a barrage of […]

Feb, 06

The Hummingbird Project *** (2018, Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, Salma Hayek) – Movie Review

Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård are engaging as New York high-frequency trader cousins Vincent and Anton Zaleski who go up against their manipulative old boss Eva Torres (Salma Hayek) to try to make millions in a fiber-optic […]

Oct, 13

Quintet * (1979, Paul Newman, Bibi Andersson, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 7533

In the same year as he did the successful romantic comedy A Perfect Couple, director Robert Altman made this disastrous sci-fi mystery muddle Quintet (1979), set during a distant future inhospitable ice age, with Paul […]

Sep, 03

Animal World [Dongwu shijie] *** (2018, Yi Feng Li, Dongyu Zhou, Michael Douglas) – Movie Review

They dress it up well, but this entire 132-minute Chinese thriller is based on a game of rock, paper, scissors. Now that is ingenious. Simple, slick and smart, Animal World [Dongwu shijie] is a winner. Yi […]

Jul, 03

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