Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "revenge"

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Metro *** (1997, Eddie Murphy, Michael Rapaport, Michael Wincott) – Classic Movie Review 1565

Director Thomas Carter’s 1997 acceptable genre thriller stars Eddie Murphy, who grabs the chance of a rare decent role as a police hostage negotiator Inspector Scott Roper, whose skills are tested to the limit after […]

Aug, 18

Written on the Wind **** (1956, Lauren Bacall, Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone) – Classic Movie Review 1545

Director Douglas Sirk’s penetrating, inspired 1956 movie expose of the idle, pointless lives of the self-destructive rich centres on an ultra-wealthy Texas oil family. Dorothy Malone won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for playing the sex-crazed […]

Aug, 13

The Purge: Anarchy *** (2014, Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Kiele Sanchez, Zach Gilford) – Movie Review

Another year, another Purge. James DeMonaco’s sequel to his 2013 hit focuses on a young couple (Kiele Sanchez, Zach Gilford) trying to survive on the Los Angeles streets after their car breaks down just as the […]

Jul, 23

The First Wives Club ***½ (1996, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton) – Classic Movie Review 1435

Bette Midler (as Brenda Cushman), Goldie Hawn (as Elise Elliot) and Diane Keaton (as Annie Paradis) star as middle-agers plotting revenge after being dumped and divorced by their hubbies in favour of younger wives in director Hugh Wilson’s […]

Jul, 16

The Stepford Wives ** (2004, Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken) – Classic Movie Review 1382

Nicole Kidman looks like she’d prefer to be somewhere else during director Frank Oz’s cheesy 2004 black comedy remake of the 1974 chiller about the too-perfect wives of a New England village. The first half hour […]

Jul, 01

A Fistful of Dollars [Per un pugno di dollari] ***** (1964, Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volontè, Marianne Koch) – Classic Movie Review 1,366

A Fistful of Dollars (1964) – Per un pugno di dollari in Italian – is the first of writer-director Sergio Leone’s much admired, incredibly popular, now cult classic series of spaghetti Westerns. It was eventually a huge […]

Jun, 28

Dark City **** (1950, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 1322

Director William Dieterle’s 1950 classic film noir thriller stars a young-looking 27-year-old Charlton Heston, who makes a strong impression in his film debut as Danny Haley, a war hero turned villain running from a vengeful killer. […]

Jun, 14

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