Derek Winnert

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Missing in Action 2: The Beginning * (1985, Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams) – Classic Movie Review 10,336

Director Lance Hool’s 1985 film Missing in Action 2: The Beginning brings back Chuck Norris in the Seventies-set prequel to 1984’s hit Missing in Action, in which Colonel James Braddock (Norris) has a terrible time […]

Sep, 22

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

Solo: A Star Wars Story *** (2018, Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke) – Movie Review 

Director: Ron Howard’s 2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story is okay as a pleasant time-passer and has some enjoyable sequences and entertaining characters. But it is a bit sticky and stodgy in places, and it […]

May, 25

The Nightcomers ** (1971, Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5872

The ever-enterprising producer-director Michael Winner was a great entrepreneur and managed to film with some of cinema’s biggest names – here in 1971 it is Marlon Brando. The movies, well, they were something else. Based […]

Aug, 07

Psycho IV: The Beginning *** (1990, Anthony Perkins, Olivia Hussey, CCH Pounder, Henry Thomas) – Classic Movie Review 5861

Director Mick Garris’s 1990 made-for-TV horror movie goes back to the beginning  for an intriguing prequel written by Joseph Stefano, the screenwriter of the first Psycho (1960), basing his script on the characters created by […]

Aug, 06

The Rainbow *** (1989, Sammi Davis, Paul McGann, Amanda Donohoe, Christopher Gable, David Hemmings, Glenda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 5454

Co-writer/ producer/ director Ken Russell’s provides his 1989 film prequel to his own Women in Love (1969), in which he adapts D H Lawrence’s tale of the Brangwen family to focus on the intellectual and sexual […]

May, 14

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them **** (2016, Eddie Redmayne, Dan Fogler, Colin Farrell, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Jon Voight, Ezra Miller) – Movie Review

And so J.K. Rowling invites you to a new era of the wizarding world in the first film of a new five-film franchise, a very easy-to-like spinoff prequel to Harry Potter, set in 1926. It marks […]

Nov, 17

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