Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "remake"

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The Stepfather *** (2009, Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Amber Heard) – Classic Movie Review 4416

Giving an acting class in oozing smarmy charm while imploding with pent-up underlying rage, an ideally cast Dylan Walsh pitches it just right as a scary schizo serial killer who sets up home with fatherless […]

Sep, 26

Assault on Precinct 13 ***½ (2005, Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne, Ja Rule, Maria Bello, Drea de Matteo, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo) – Classic Movie Review 4353

Ethan Hawke again proves he can play a tough cop as Sgt Jake Roenick, the useful hero of the brilliantly tense 2005 action thriller film remake Assault on Precinct 13. After Training Day (2001), Ethan […]

Sep, 12

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey *** (1993, Robert Hayes, Kim Griest, Jean Smart, voices Michael J Fox, Sally Field, Don Ameche) – Classic Movie Review 4351

Walt Disney Pictures’s sweet, amusing and engrossing 1993 family movie remake of its 1963 wildlife hit The Incredible Journey re-tells the tale of a trio of pets, two dogs and a cat, trekking across mountains, […]

Sep, 12

Alfie **** (2004, Jude Law, Susan Sarandon, Sienna Miller, Omar Epps, Nia Long, Marisa Tomei, Renée Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 4338

Using some DNA dug up from an old British movie studio vault, Americans try to re-create the old sexist, misogynist dinosaur Alfie, played so memorably back in 1966 by Michael Caine in Alfie. They haven’t […]

Sep, 11

Sleuth **** (2007, Michael Caine, Jude Law) – Classic Movie Review 4337

Michael Caine and Jude Law – who played Caine’s old role in the underrated 2004 remake of Alfie – are perfect casting in yet another Caine remake – this time his 1972 hit thriller Sleuth, […]

Sep, 11

The Wolfman ** (2010, Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving) – Classic Movie Review 4324

After his brother is murdered by a werewolf in the woods, haunted Yorkshire nobleman Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) is called back to his family estate by his brother’s fiancée Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt) and is reunited […]

Sep, 09

La Ronde *** (1964, Marie Dubois, Claude Giraud, Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jane Fonda, Maurice Ronet, Catherine Spaak, Francine Bergé) – Classic Movie Review 4306

Director Roger Vadim’s starry and atmospheric 1964 film adaptation of the classic Arthur Schnitzler play, now re-set in Paris during the summer of 1914, tells the same ten circular thematically interlinked tales of love and seduction. […]

Sep, 05

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