Derek Winnert

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Murder at 1600 * (1997, Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali, Alan Alda, Tate Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 2300

Director Dwight H Little’s 1997 movie is a very, very bad and totally cheesy thriller, wasting Wesley Snipes as Detective Harlan Regis, a homicide cop who must investigate the murder of a woman in a […]

Mar, 22

John Wick **** (2014, Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, Adrianne Palicki, John Leguizamo, Ian McShane) – Classic Movie Review 2,286

Keanu Reeves stars in the 2014 action thriller film as the ex-hitman John Wick, who comes out of retirement to fight a one-man war against the gangsters who steal his car and kill his dog, […]

Mar, 20

The Unseen *** (1945, Gail Russell, Joel McCrea, Herbert Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 2278

Director Lewis Allen’s fairly involving, creepy and surprising 1945 chiller is Paramount’s less gripping but still enjoyable follow-up to their previous year’s hit The Uninvited (1944). It reunites the director with star Gail Russell, who this time plays […]

Mar, 18

The Dark Mirror **** (1946, Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 2273

Robert Siodmak directs one of Hollywood’s better Forties psychological film noir thrillers in 1946. It finds Olivia de Havilland on rousing form, enjoying herself enormously in two roles as identical twins Terry and Ruth Collins, one […]

Mar, 16

Another Thin Man **** (1939, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, Ruth Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 2264

The bubbly 1939 comedy detective thriller film Another Thin Man is another enjoyable Thin Man mystery, the third in the MGM six-movie franchise, based on Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op story The Farewell Murder. Director W […]

Mar, 14

After the Thin Man **** (1936, William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart) – Classic Movie Review 2263

The story for the 1936 sequel film After the Thin Man is specially written by legendary Dashiell Hammett, based on his sleuth characters of Nick and Nora in his 1934 novel The Thin Man but […]

Mar, 14

The Thin Man ***** (1934, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan) – Classic Movie Review 2262

Director W S Van Dyke’s sparkling 1934 comedy thriller The Thin Man is a bright, bubbly and witty version of the much darker-toned Dashiell Hammett classic detective novel renowned for its brilliantly told masterly mystery […]

Mar, 14

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