Derek Winnert

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New Mexico ** (1951, Lew Ayres, Marilyn Maxwell, Robert Hutton, Andy Devine, Jeff Corey, Ted de Corsia, Lloyd Corrigan, John Hoyt, Raymond Burr) – Classic Movie Review 11,320

‘ARROW-STREAKED ADVENTURE! BULLET-SCARRED STORY!!!’ Director Irving Reis’s interesting if historically inaccurate 1951 Western film New Mexico stars Lew Ayres as nice US Cavalry captain Hunt who fully understands the Native Americans’ understandable grievances, but when […]

Jun, 18

Wyatt Earp ** (1994, Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman) – Classic Movie Review 4168

Director Lawrence Kasdan’s endless, un-dynamic, sprawling and disjointedly episodic 1994 film version of the well-known, oft-related saga is admittedly ambitious but must count as a major disappointment. Kevin Costner gives a flat, over-dominating, self-regarding performance as Tombstone […]

Aug, 13

Rasputin: The Mad Monk *** (1966, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis Matthews, Renée Asherson, Dinsdale Landen, Suzan Farmer, Joss Ackland) – Classic Movie Review 2889

Director Don Sharp’s colourful and entertaining 1966 Hammer Films studios horror movie Rasputin: The Mad Monk finds Christopher Lee going bananas as the sinister mad monk Grigori Rasputin, who uses his hypnotic powers and sexuality […]

Sep, 07

Django Unchained ***** (2012, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio) – Movie Review

Gleefully borrowing old video-store ideas left right and centre, Quentin Tarantino extravagantly pays, er, homage to the spaghetti Western in his incredibly lusty, spectacular revenge saga of a strangely kindly German bounty hunter, an ex-dentist named […]

Jul, 08

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