Derek Winnert

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Fourteen Hours **** (1951, Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget, Agnes Moorehead, Robert Keith, Howard Da Silva, Jeffrey Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 3390

Director Henry Hathaway’s ultra-tense, meticulously crafted 1951 film noir thriller is an absolutely excellent one. The exteriors are imaginatively shot on location on the streets of New York City. The building used was demolished in 1967 […]

Feb, 20

When the Sky Falls **** (2000, Joan Allen, Gerard Flynn, Patrick Bergin, Liam Cunningham, Kevin McNally, Pete Postlethwaite) – Classic Movie Review 3336

Director John Mackenzie’s first-rate 2000 thriller stars Joan Allen as Dublin reporter Sinead Hamilton, who dices with death to pursue the story of an evil crime boss (Gerard Flynn). The admirable Allen effortlessly carries this […]

Feb, 07

Veronica Guerin *** (2003, Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Colin Farrell) – Classic Movie Review 3330

Director Joel Schumacher’s 2003 true-story thriller stars Cate Blanchett, who excels as fearless Dublin reporter Veronica Guerin, who dices with death – even after her life is threatened – to pursue the story of an […]

Feb, 06

The Return of Doctor X [The Return of Dr X] ** (1939, Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Dennis Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 3,124

‘HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD…TO HAUNT THE LIVING!!!’ The intriguing 1939 horror thriller film The Return of Doctor X stars a just pre-superstardom Humphrey Bogart as the murderous bogeyman Doctor X. Bogart called it a […]

Dec, 02

Doctor X [Dr X] **** (1932, Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy) – Classic Movie Review 3,121

The wild and wonderful 1932 blood-curdling baroque horror film Doctor X [Dr X] stars Lionel Atwill as a mad scientist, Dr Jerry Xavier, the crazy full-moon serial strangler. ‘Out-Thrills Them All!’ Director Michael Curtiz’s wild […]

Dec, 02

Life or Something Like It ** (2002, Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane, James Gammon, Melissa Errico, Stockard Channing) – Classic Movie Review 3027

Director Stephen Herek’s 2002 romantic comedy drama is a plush, well-acted but largely dreary heart-tugger, in which Angelina Jolie plays Seattle TV news reporter Lanie Kerrigan who interviews a psychic homeless man (Tony Shalhoub) about […]

Nov, 02

Van Wilder: Party Liaison * (2002, Ryan Reynolds, Tim Matheson, Tara Reid, Kal Penn) – Classic Movie Review 3007

Director Walt Becker’s 2002 comedy is more or less National Lampoon’s Animal House is revisited 25 years on, with one of its stars. Tim Matheson, now playing the workaholic dad of eternal student slacker Van […]

Oct, 24

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