Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Las Vegas"

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Flareup ** (1969, Raquel Welch, James Stacy, Luke Askew, Ron Rifkin) – Classic Movie Review 9575

Director James Neilson’s 1969 exciting but dodgy exploiter thriller Flareup stars Raquel Welch, who flashes her lovely thighs (presumably on the principle that if you’ve got it, flaunt it) as dancer Michele while dancing at […]

Mar, 29

Sleepless ** (2017, Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Dermot Mulroney, Scoot McNairy) – Movie Review

Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx sleep-walks through director Baran bo Odar’s mediocre, nastily violent action thriller, based on Frédéric Jardin’s 2011 French original, Nuit blanche [Sleepless Night]. You can see what they were after, a take on a Liam Neeson-style […]

May, 03

Frank & Lola ** (2016, Michael Shannon, Imogen Poots, Justin Long, Michael Nyqvist, Emmanuelle Devos, Rosanna Arquette) – Movie Review

Michael Shannon rivets the attention as troubled chef Frank, a fiery cauldron always about to bubble over, way out-classing Imogen Poots as his girlfriend Lola, in debut writer-director Matthew Ross’s darkly playful, teasing psycho-sexual love […]

Apr, 11

The Cooler **** (2004, William H Macy, Mario Bello, Alec Baldwin, Shawn Hatosy, Ron Livingston, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 4501

William H Macy stars as a middle-aged Las Vegas casino worker who falls for a young hooker-waitress (Mario Bello), upsetting his nasty boss, Alec Baldwin. Macy turns on his sad charm as a loser who […]

Oct, 22

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story **½ (2004, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Rip Torn, Justin Long, Christine Taylor, Gary Cole) – Classic Movie Review 4356

To save his gym from foreclosure, Vince Vaughn arranges for his gang of gym buddy misfits to fight Ben Stiller’s team for a $50,000 prize at a Las Vegas game of dodgeball. There are as […]

Sep, 13

The Trust *** (2016, Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira, Jerry Lewis, Ethan Suplee) – Movie Review

There are things wrong with the engagingly eccentric and berserk 2016 crime thriller The Trust, but the star performances of Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood are not among them. They are faultless and funny as Jim Stone and David Waters, a pair of maverick Las […]

May, 28

Leaving Las Vegas **** (1995, Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands) – Classic Movie Review 2725

Writer-director Mike Figgis’s 1995 drama stars Nicolas Cage, who won a Best Actor Oscar as Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic screenwriter who is fired by his Hollywood studio for his drinking, and heads for Las Vegas […]

Jul, 21

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