Derek Winnert

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Malice *** (1993, Bill Pullman, Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 1509

Director Harold Becker’s 1993 thriller is a compulsively preposterous, bizarre and artificial suspense mystery movie, in which Bill Pullman and Nicole Kidman star as New England college dean Andy and his lovely younger wife Tracy, Andy’s former pupil who […]

Aug, 02

Bullet to the Head *** (2012, Sylvester Stallone) – Movie Review

Sylvester Stallone returns to his roots as an iconic action star to play Jimmy Bobo, a jaded New Orleans hitman who reluctantly teams up with a Washington DC police detective (Sung Kang) to bring down the […]

May, 03

The Killers ***** (1946, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Albert Dekker) – Classic Movie Review 1137

Director Robert Siodmak turns Ernest Hemingway’s short story about a gangster waiting passively for the two professional killers who are coming to get him into an extremely atmospheric, tense and stylish hard-nosed, hard-boiled film noir crime […]

Apr, 22

This Gun for Hire ***** (1942, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston) – Classic Movie Review 1,011

The 1942 film noir thriller This Gun for Hire transforms Graham Greene’s novel into a showcase for the sparkling new star team of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake (just 20), propelling them into superstardom. ‘You […]

Mar, 29

Kiss the Girls *** (1997, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Tony Goldwyn, Bill Nunn, Jeremy Piven, Brian Cox, Mena Suvari, Roma Maffia) – Classic Movie Review 889

The compelling 1997 thriller film Kiss the Girls stars Morgan Freeman as detective Alex Cross, who desperately follows the case in North Carolina of the abduction of his niece. Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes and Brian […]

Mar, 09

Max Payne *** (2008, Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Olga Kurylenko, Ludacris, Chris O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 783

‘I don’t believe in heaven. I believe in pain. I believe in fear. I believe in death.’ Mmmm… Muscle man tough guy Mark Wahlberg is ideally cast in 2008 as Max Payne, a NYPD detective obsessed […]

Feb, 01

Number Seventeen **** (1932, John Stuart, Anne Grey, Leon M Lion) – Classic Movie Review 573

John Stuart stars as police detective Gilbert Fordyce, who is searching for a necklace and is on the trail of a gang of clever jewel thieves who stole it, in Alfred Hitchcock’s vintage 1932 British […]

Dec, 24

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