Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "1980s"

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Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning * (1985, Melanie Kinnaman, John Shepherd, Anthony Barrile) – Classic Movie Review 8277

Hopes that the series would finally end after 1984’s Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter are cruelly dashed with co-writer/ director Danny Steinmann’s 1985 horror mystery thriller Friday the 13th, Part V: A New Beginning. […]

Mar, 21

Raise the Titanic * (1980, Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Alec Guinness, Anne Archer, J D Cannon, M Emmet Walsh, Bo Brundin, Norman Bartold) – Classic Movie Review 8216

Director Jerry Jameson’s sluggish 1980 action adventure thriller Raise the Titanic was a titanic disaster for producer Lord Lew Grade that sank his production company ITC Films in the murky waters of the huge debt […]

Mar, 08

The Horror Show [House III] * (1989, Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Rita Taggart) – Classic Movie Review 8143

Director James Isaac’s often tedious and very unpleasant 1989 horror fantasy The Horror Show [House III] is lifted slightly by Lance Henriksen’s all-stops-out acting as Detective Lucas McCarthy, a cop chased in his new house […]

Feb, 18

White Boy Rick ** (2018, Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh) – Movie Review

It is easy to see what drew director Yann Demange to the story of the rise and fall of the teenage drug hustler Rick Wershe Jr for his real-life Eighties crime drama movie White Boy Rick. […]

Dec, 08

The Front Runner *** (2018, Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J K Simmons, Kaitlyn Dever, Sara Paxton, Alfred Molina) – Movie Review

American Senator Gary Hart was an idiot. At the crucial climax to his 1988 presidential campaign in which he is The Front Runner, the newspapers (The Miami Herald) catch him (after a tip-off) in an extra-marital love […]

Oct, 14

Tango & Cash **** (1989, Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher, Jack Palance) – Classic Movie Review 7651

Director Andrei Konchalovsky’s appealing 1989 Tango & Cash teams Sylvester Stallone as Lieutenant Raymond Tango with Kurt Russell Stallone as Lieutenant Gabriel Cash, LA’s top two rival cops. Rivals they may be, but the mismatched […]

Oct, 09

Rambo: First Blood Part II ** (1985, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier) – Classic Movie Review 7645

Titanic and Avatar director James Cameron helped Sylvester Stallone to write the screenplay for director George Pan Cosmatos’s 1985 Rambo: First Blood Part II, the first sequel to Rambo: First Blood, in which John Rambo […]

Oct, 08

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