Derek Winnert

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Wetbacks * (1956, Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates, Barton MacLane, John Hoyt, Harold Peary, Nacho Galindo) – Classic Movie Review 8261

Director Hank McCune’s Wetbacks (1956) stars Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates and Barton MacLane, but the really good news is that it is written by Edward D Wood Jr (hiding his light under a bushel as […]

Mar, 18

The Man with One Red Shoe *** (1985, Tom Hanks, James Belushi, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Carrie Fisher, Charles Durning, Edward Herrmann) – Classic Movie Review 6175

The Americans remake yet another French comedy (the 1972 The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe) to provide a fun role for Tom Hanks as Richard, a violinist who cycles to his engagements, taken […]

Nov, 02

Blue Thunder **** (1983, Roy Scheider, Candy Clark, Warren Oates, Malcolm McDowell, Daniel Stern) – Classic Movie Review 6044

Director John Badham’s riveting 1983 action adventure thriller provides a great showcase for the talents of Roy Scheider. The always underrated and undervalued actor grabs one of his best Eighties opportunities as  Los Angeles Police […]

Sep, 24

Le Serpent [The Serpent] *** (1973, Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Farley Granger, Philippe Noiret, Virna Lisi, Michel Bouquet) – Classic Movie Review 5992

Co-writer/ producer/ director Henri Verneuil’s 1973 French movie for the international market is a standard, Seventies realist spy-thriller, with a gritty, sombre tone. It boasts an exceptional star line-up, which is one of its main […]

Aug, 29

2 Days in the Valley *** (1996, Teri Hatcher, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Glenne Headly, Charlize Theron) – Classic Movie Review 5575

‘The nights are cool. But the days are murder!’ Writer-director John Herzfeld’s cool 1996 black comedy crime thriller revolves around 48 hours of intersecting lives of a group of 10 characters and crimes in the San Fernando Valley, in […]

Aug, 01

The Fly II ** (1989, Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson,John Getz) – Classic Movie Review 5304

Director Chris Walas’s 1989 sequel to the 1986 The Fly is really Son of the Fly, in what is actually a remake of the 1959 Return of the Fly, the first sequel to the original […]

Apr, 16

Snowden ****½ (2016, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Rhys Ifans, Shailene Woodley, Nicolas Cage) – Movie Review

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is fired up and on fire as real-life NSA employee Edward Snowden who leaks thousands of the agency’s classified documents about illegal surveillance techniques to the press. In a hotel room, he spills the beans to […]

Oct, 17

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