Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "professional assassin"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "professional assassin".

The Virtuoso *** (2021, Anson Mount, Anthony Hopkins, Abbie Cornish, Diora Baird, Eddie Marsan, David Morse, Richard Brake) – Movie Review

Producer-director Nick Stagliano’s satisfying and strong 2021 action crime thriller The Virtuoso stars Anson Mount as lonesome assassin The Virtuoso, who must find and kill a rogue hitman to satisfy an outstanding debt to The […]

Apr, 23

The Day of the Jackal ***** (1973, Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Eric Porter, Cyril Cusack, Delphine Seyrig, Donald Sinden, Tony Britton, Timothy West, Anton Rodgers) – Classic Movie Review 4894

Director Fred Zinnemann’s 1973 British film adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s labyrinthine bestselling novel The Day of the Jackal about the plot to assassinate General Charles de Gaulle, the President of France, in 1963 is a […]

Jan, 15

The Eiger Sanction * (1975, Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy) – Classic Movie Review 4112

Director-star Clint Eastwood slipped in the picturesque but poor-quality 1975 mountain thriller The Eiger Sanction between Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). They are two of his finest movies and this is […]

Jul, 31

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

Grosse Pointe Blank **** (1997, John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, Hank Azaria, Alan Arkin) – Classic Movie Review 1092

Director George Armitage’s amusingly quirky, very dark 1997 comedy drama Grosse Pointe Blank stars John Cusack, who gives an outstanding performance – one of his very best – as a man reluctant to attend his […]

Apr, 14

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.