Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "gangster movie"

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The Long Good Friday ***** (1980, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Dave King, Bryan Marshall, Derek Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 1220

Director John Mackenzie’s superb 1980 Brit classic is an exciting, trend-setting transfer of an American-style gangster movie to East London. It was voted number 21 in the British Film Institute’s top 100 British films of the […]

May, 16

The Raid 2 (Iko Uwais) – Movie Review

Iko Uwais is back as Jakarta cop Rama in Welsh director Gareth Evans’s astounding, pounding, scalding epic Indonesian gangster movie sequel to the 2011 blockbuster. Two and a half hours of serious, full-on non-stop action, it’s […]

Apr, 09

Bonnie and Clyde ***** (1967, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Gene Wilder) – Classic Movie Review 848

‘They’re young. They’re in love. They rob banks.’  Warren Beatty stars as small-time bank robber Clyde Barrow who joins up with Faye Dunaway as bored small-town waitress Bonnie Parker to embark on a series of […]

Feb, 25

Classe Tous Risques [The Big Risk] ***** (1960, Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio) – Classic Movie Review 236

Lino Ventura is perfect as a doomed anti-hero in Claude Sautet’s bleak, tough 1960 French film noir-style gangster film Classe Tous Risques [The Big Risk]. Sandra Milo plays a young actress befriended by a young […]

Sep, 11

Road to Perdition ***** (2002, Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Tyler Hoechlin, Daniel Craig, Ciarân Hinds, Stanley Tucci, Dylan Baker, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 234

A haunting, unmissable gangster movie with a dazzling surface, director Sam Mendes’s 2002 follow-up to his American Beauty has got class written all over every frame of it. It is superbly crafted with beautiful performances, particularly […]

Sep, 09

Donnie Brasco **** (1997, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche, Zeljko Ivanek) – Classic Movie Review 217

This 1997 real-life gangster movie is a scintillating, epic look at the New York Mafia in 1978, based by screenwriter Paul Attanasio on a true-story book by Joseph D Pistone and Richard Woodley. An ideally […]

Sep, 03

King of New York ***** (1990, Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne) – Classic Movie Review 182

‘From now on nothing goes down unless I’m involved. No blackjack, no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on […]

Aug, 23

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