Derek Winnert

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Thir13een Ghosts (2001, F Murray Abraham, Matthew Lillard) – Classic Film Review 1144

Director Steve Beck’s 2001 release is more trashy horror hokum from the Dark Castle production company, again featuring plenty of madcap characters. Neal Stevens and Richard D’Ovidio’s screenplay is based on Robb White’s story for […]

Apr, 25

What Lies Beneath (2000, Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford) – Classic Film Review 1109

Director Robert Zemeckis’s 2000 thriller stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a New England middle-aged housewife who is happily married to well-to-do genetics professor Harrison Ford. And they really seem to have an idyllic life in their […]

Apr, 18

House on Haunted Hill *** (1999, Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Chris Kattan, Peter Gallagher, Bridgette Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 1089

As Steven H Price, Geoffrey Rush does a good, cheeky impersonation of Vincent Price in this welcome but iffy and not always sufficiently amusing 1999 reworking of the old 1958 William Castle horror movie. Price played […]

Apr, 13

Ghostbusters **** (1984, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver) – Classic Movie Review 931

Who ya gonna call? Producer-director Ivan Reitman’s 1984 special effects-led sci-fi comedy blockbuster Ghostbusters was boosted to huge popular success by Ray Parker Jnr’s hit song and a great ad campaign featuring a ghost sign […]

Mar, 17

Casper **** (1995, Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Cathy Moriarty, Eric Idle) – Classic Movie Review 840

Steven Spielberg decides in 1995 to produce the live-action debut of beloved cartoon friendly ghost Casper. But casting young Christina Ricci, (once Wednesday in the Addams Family movies and now 15) as the heroine gives her […]

Feb, 18

Bringing Out the Dead **** (1999, Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman) – Classic Movie Review 701

Director Martin Scorsese returns in 1999 memorably and stylishly to the smoky New York mean streets he explored so famously in Taxi Driver, with a screenplay by that film’s writer Paul Schrader, based on the […]

Jan, 15

Scrooged **** (1988, Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, Robert Mitchum, Anne Ramsey) – Classic Movie Review 566

Bill Murray gives a splendidly sour and grumpy star turn as Frank Cross, a hateful, curmudgeonly, Scrooge-like American TV executive, in the 1988 comedy film Scrooged. Director Richard Donner’s 1988 update on Charles Dickens’s perennially […]

Dec, 23

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