Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "neo noir"

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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia **** (1974, Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Gig Young, Robert Webber, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández, Kris Kristofferson) – Classic Movie Review 8420

Emilio Fernández stars as a wealthy Mexican rancher called El Jefe, who offers $1 million for the head of a lothario seducer who has made his daughter pregnant, in director Sam Peckinpah’s first-rate 1974 action crime […]

May, 01

Payback **** (1999, Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer, Bill Duke) – Classic Movie Review 8398

Writer-director Brian Helgeland’s 1999 neo noir crime thriller Payback stars Mel Gibson as tough ex-marine Porter, a hood who is double-crossed and shot in the back by his unfaithful junkie wife Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger) and […]

Apr, 26

The Hot Spot *** (1990, Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Jerry Hardin) – Classic Movie Review 8214

‘There are only two things to do in this small town. One is watching TV.’ Director Dennis Hopper’s involving 1990 erotic violent neo noir thriller The Hot Spot stars a well-cast Don Johnson as Harry […]

Mar, 08

I Mobster *** (1959, Steve Cochran, Lita Milan, Robert Strauss, Celia Lovsky, John Brinkley, John Mylong) – Classic Movie Review 6147

Director Roger Corman’s lively and lusty 1959 film noir crime drama movie I Mobster is your usual version of that usual, well-known yarn, used again in 1992 in Billy Bathgate and Mobsters, about a poor […]

Oct, 27

Who Framed Roger Rabbit **** (1988, Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Stubby Kaye) – Classic Movie Review 4,557

Live actors join the cartoon world of Toon Town as warm and jovial performances by Bob Hoskins and Christopher Lloyd provide the human dimension for Robert Zemeckis’s exuberant and technically perfect 1988 film Who Framed […]

Oct, 29

Against All Odds **** (1984, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Rachel Ward) – Classic Movie Review 2045

Director Taylor Hackford delivers a satisfyingly twisty, fascinating 1984 neo noir remake of the classic 1947 Robert Mitchum-Jane Greer-Kirk Douglas film noir thriller Out of the Past. This time, in Against All Odds, Jeff Bridges stars […]

Jan, 04

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