Derek Winnert

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The Yellow Balloon **** (1953, Andrew Ray, Kenneth More, William Sylvester, Kathleen Ryan) – Classic Movie Review 12,117

The Yellow Balloon (1953) was one of the first films to be passed with an X certificate by the British Board of Film Censors, which judged the chase through the London Underground station too frightening […]

May, 13

Year of the Comet ** (1992, Tim Daly, Penelope Ann Miller, Louis Jourdan) – Classic Movie Review 11,386

Director Peter Yates’s 1992 romantic adventure comedy thriller film Year of the Comet follows a chase around the 1811 most valuable bottle of wine in history, and stars Tim Daly, Penelope Ann Miller, and Louis […]

Jul, 13

Knives Out ** (2019 Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Christopher Plummer) – Movie Review

Sorry, it’s Knives Out here. Writer-director Rian Johnson’s Agatha Christie spoof Knives Out is long (130 minutes), slow, draggy, stale and not much fun at all. The performances are uniformly arch and overstated. Daniel Craig […]

Dec, 02

Quicksand *** (1950, Mickey Rooney, Jeanne Cagney, Barbara Bates, Peter Lorre) – Classic Movie Review 8909

Director Irving Pichel’s  low-budget 1950 black and white film noir crime thriller Quicksand stars Mickey Rooney as garage-hand Dan Brady, who steals $20 from his employer, intending to pay it back next day, when he […]

Sep, 16

BMX Bandits *** (1983, David Argue, John Ley, Bryan Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 8804

BMX Bandits takes us back to the early Eighties BMX bike craze and a time when Nicole Kidman was a teenager. Where there’s a craze, there’s a movie and here is a bright but daft […]

Aug, 08

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum *** (2019, Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Ian McShane, Laurence Fishburne, Mark Dacascos, Asia Kate Dillon, Anjelica Huston, Mark Dacascos) – Movie Review

Director Chad Stahelski returns for the 2019 third installment of Keanu Reeves’s hit action crime thriller series John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, with some dazzlingly brilliant action scenes and stunts, actually many, many dazzlingly brilliant […]

May, 16

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days *** (1979, William Katt, Tom Berenger, Jeff Corey) – Classic Movie Review 8138

Likeable young stars Tom Berenger (as Butch Cassidy) and William Katt (as the Sundance Kid) are cast as near lookalikes for their predecessors Paul Newman and Robert Redford in director Richard Lester’s 1979 Butch and […]

Feb, 16

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