Derek Winnert

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Coming to America ** (1988, Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley, John Amos) – Classic Movie Review 8806

Director John Landis’s 1988 romantic comedy Coming to America represents a mild return to form for Eddie Murphy, engagingly playing Akeem Joffer, the powerful crown prince of the fictional African nation of Zamunda, who comes […]

Aug, 08

Gideon of Scotland Yard [Gideon’s Day] ***½ (1958, Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster, Anna Lee, Andrew Ray, Anna Massey, Frank Lawton, John Loder, Cyril Cusack, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 5152

Producer-director John Ford’s engrossing and compelling 1958 British thriller Gideon of Scotland Yard [Gideon’s Day] stars an ideally cast Jack Hawkins as harassed plain-clothes police inspector George Gideon of Scotland Yard, who is having quite […]

Mar, 13

Inside Man **** (2006, Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor) – Classic Movie Review 4516

New York cop Detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) is engaged in a risky game of cat and mouse with smooth criminal Dalton Russell (Clive Owen), leader of a gang of robbers disguised in painters’ outfits, who storm […]

Oct, 23

The River Wild *** (1994, Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, John C Reilly, Benjamin Bratt, Joseph Mazzello) – Classic Movie Review 3243

Director Curtis Hanson’s exciting 1994 action adventure crime thriller is a posh-end item, with a classy cast. Dennis O’Neill’s screenplay might spend time providing atmosphere, building character and developing dialogue, but it delivers all the tension and thrills […]

Jan, 17

Bonnie and Clyde ***** (1967, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Denver Pyle, Dub Taylor, Gene Wilder) – Classic Movie Review 848

Director Arthur Penn’s 1967 classic Bonnie and Clyde is one of the most memorable icons of Sixties cinema and the gangster movie of the era. ‘They’re young. They’re in love. They rob banks.’ Warren Beatty […]

Feb, 25

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