Derek Winnert

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Wilson *** (1944, Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Cedric Hardwicke, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price) – Classic Movie Review 8647

Opportunity knocks for Alexander Knox, who grabs it to give a careful, painstaking and impressive star turn as US President Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), rising from president at Princeton to governor of New Jersey to […]

Jun, 28

Elvis & Nixon ***½ (2016, Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Colin Hanks) – Movie Review

Director Liza Johnson’s engaging and engrossing 2016 shaggy dog story is the previously untold true one of the peculiar meeting between Elvis Presley and US President Richard Nixon on the morning of 21 December 1970. Only in America! The screenplay by Joey Sagal, […]

Jul, 01

Murder at 1600 * (1997, Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali, Alan Alda, Tate Donovan) – Classic Movie Review 2300

Director Dwight H Little’s 1997 movie is a very, very bad and totally cheesy thriller, wasting Wesley Snipes as Detective Harlan Regis, a homicide cop who must investigate the murder of a woman in a […]

Mar, 22

Olympus Has Fallen *** (2013, Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo) – Movie Review

My fellow people of the world, there’s bad news. Unfortunately, it seems that Olympus, that’s American Secret Service code for the White House, has fallen to pesky foreign terrorist invaders. They’ve flown in, shot up […]

Mar, 24

Dave *** (1993, Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Ben Kingsley) – Classic Movie Review 946

The 1989 Oscar-winner for A Fish Called Wanda, Kevin Kline uses all his nimble comedy skills and appears to be thoroughly enjoying himself in every actor’s dream of twin roles. He stars as Dave Kovic, a sweet-natured […]

Mar, 19

The Butler – Film Review

One man’s tenure as a butler at the White House, as the civil rights movement, Vietnam and other major events affect his life, family and American society, makes for a good, meaty subject. But Lee Daniels’s […]

Oct, 30

White House Down ** (2013, Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Woods) – Movie Review

Washington cop Channing Tatum is on a guided tour of the White House with his little daughter when heavily armed para-militarists suddenly attack. Now he’s got three little problems: saving his daughter, protecting the life […]

Sep, 10

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