Derek Winnert

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Léon *** [Léon: The Professional] (1994, Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, Danny Aiello) – Classic Movie Review 1244

This slick but reprehensible 1994 English-language French urban neo noir thriller is directed with knowing flash that is all surface and no depth by co-producer/ writer/ director Luc Besson. His story about an illiterate mob […]

May, 24

Blue Ruin (2013, Macon Blair) – Movie Review

The film noir is profitably revisited by writer-director Jeremy Saulnier, who provides an unforgettable role for Macon Blair as Dwight. The little-known actor grabs his chance in the spotlight beautifully. First seen with the kind […]

May, 01

The Other Woman (2014, Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann) – Movie Review

After level-headed lawyer Cameron Diaz discovers that her hunky boyfriend Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a married man, she soon meets the Mann he’s married to, Leslie Mann, the neurotic, clingy, whingey wife he’s been cheating on. Diaz tries to shake […]

Apr, 24

Spider-Man 3 **** (2007, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rosemary Harris, J K Simmons, James Cromwell) – Classic Movie Review 1106

The final film in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy cost a whopping $258million and was the most expensive film of all time at release but it became the most financially successful film in the series worldwide. […]

Apr, 18

Blade ***½ (1998, Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson) – Classic Movie Review 1,065

An ideal Wesley Snipes stars as the vampire/ human hybrid vampire-hunter in the entertaining, blood-thirsty 1998 American superhero film Blade. It is Marvel’s first film success. Director Stephen Norrington’s 1998 blood-thirsty fantasy thriller film Blade casts […]

Apr, 06

The Return of Frank James **** (1940, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper) – Classic Film Review 1064

Director Fritz Lang’s 1940 follow-up to 1939’s huge hit Jesse James is at least the equal of a marvellous original. Once more, the film was universally considered historically inaccurate but again was a commercial success. […]

Apr, 06

Swimming with Sharks **** (1994, Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, Michelle Forbes, Benicio Del Toro, Jerry Levine, T E Russell, Roy Dotrice) – Classic Movie Review 1028

Writer-director George Huang’s dark 1994 black comedy crime psychological drama Swimming with Sharks finds Kevin Spacey playing one of the main sharks swimming in the Hollywood pool in this thrillingly-acted, involving and quite engrossingly written Tinseltown […]

Mar, 31

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