Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "revenge"

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Death to Smoochy ** (2002, Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 1785

Robin Williams stars as horrible children’s TV show host Rainbow Randolph, who is sacked for bribery and corruption and wants revenge on his replacement, a meek folk singer called Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton) who dresses […]

Oct, 28

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave *** (1968, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson) – Classic Movie Review 1733

Director Freddie Francis’s 1968 horror movie sequel Dracula Has Risen from the Grave is the quite stylish and still welcome third episode in the Christopher Lee Hammer Films series, following Terence Fisher’s Dracula in 1958 […]

Oct, 03

Taste the Blood of Dracula ** (1970, Christopher Lee, Ralph Bates, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford) – Classic Movie Review 1735

Director Peter Sasdy’s 1970 horror thriller Taste the Blood of Dracula is the fourth in the famous British Hammer Films Dracula series with Christopher Lee, a watchable follow-up to 1968’s Dracula Has Risen from the […]

Oct, 02

One-Eyed Jacks ***** (1961, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden) – Classic Movie Review 1678

Director/star Marlon Brando’s legendary 1961 revenge Western is an explosive emotional and visual powderkeg, with a great flavour of the Old West. It was a troubled production but that doesn’t show on screen. Brando took […]

Sep, 15

Crime and Punishment in Suburbia **** (2000, Monica Keena, Ellen Barkin, Michael Ironside, Vincent Kartheiser) – Classic Movie Review 1658

  Director Rob Schmidt’s 2000 thriller is a sizzling, disturbing but ultimately life-enhancing American teen movie version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment – hey, don’t switch off just yet! – with Monica Keena as […]

Sep, 09

Addicted to Love *** (1997, Matthew Broderick, Meg Ryan, Kelly Preston) – Classic Movie Review 1603

Director Griffin Dunne’s 1997 comedy stars Matthew Broderick as Sam, who follows his errant girlfriend Linda (Kelly Preston) to New York, where he’s understandably upset to find her in bed with Frenchman Anton (Tcheky Karyo), […]

Aug, 30

48 Hrs. ***** (Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O’Toole) – Classic Movie Review 1568

Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy are on blistering form in director Walter Hill’s thrilling 1982 blockbuster, one of the all-time great buddy-buddy action movies. Nolte plays Jack Cates, a middle-aged hard-nosed cop, and Murphy is Reggie Hammond, his […]

Aug, 18

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