Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "revenge"

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Wild Tales [Relatos salvajes] **** (2014, Ricardo Darin, Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa) – Movie Review

Writer-director Damián Szifrón’s lovingly crafted compendium of six deadly tales of apocalyptic revenge is an absolute corker. For Szifrón, apparently, revenge is a dish best served boiling hot. The surreal, satirical black humour, mayhem and murder are all […]

Mar, 27

The Mask of Zorro **** (1998, Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones) – Classic Movie Review 2316

Director Martin Campbell’s 1998  American swashbuckler movie The Mask of Zorro is a brilliant, old-style adventure entertainment that proves they could still make them like they used to. It is based on the character of […]

Mar, 25

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ***** (1925, Ramon Novarro, Francis X Bushman, May McAvoy) – Classic Movie Review 2292

Director Fred Niblo’s glorious 1925 silent movie masterpiece of General Lew Wallace’s bestselling 1880 novel is an all-time film classic. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ stars Ramon Novarro as Judah Ben-Hur, the head of a […]

Mar, 21

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

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

A Man Apart ** (2003, Vin Diesel, Timothy Olyphant, Larenz Tate) – Classic Movie Review 2239

Co-producer/director F Gary Gray’s 2003 muddled, middling action thriller stars Vin Diesel as a fiery undercover cop called Sean Vetter who is hot on the case of a drug lord. As a member of the […]

Mar, 05

Taken ***** (2008, Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen) – Classic Movie Review 2199

Liam Neeson is great as retired CIA agent Bryan Mills, who travels to France and uses his old skills to save his 17-year-old estranged daughter Kim (Maggie Grace, actually 25), when she is kidnapped with her friend while on a […]

Feb, 22

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