Derek Winnert

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Red Sparrow *** (2018, Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Jeremy Irons, Ciarán Hinds, Joely Richardson) – Movie Review

Jennifer Lawrence holds the screen but is hard stretched to convince as a Russian ballerina turned spy in Red Sparrow. Jennifer Lawrence holds the screen but is hard stretched to convince as Dominika Egorova, a Russian […]

Mar, 02

Nine Hours to Rama ** (1963, Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Diane Baker, Robert Morley, Harry Andrews, Valerie Gearon) – Classic Movie Review 6401

Director Mark Robson’s 1962 drama is based on the novel by Stanley Wolpert and handsomely made in India. It offers a fictionalised account of Hindu militant activist Nathuram Godse (Horst Buchholz)’s plan to kill Mahatma […]

Dec, 13

In the Line of Fire **** (1993, Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 5794

Director Wolfgang Petersen’s classy 1993 thriller finds an ideal role for Clint Eastwood as Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan, an FBI man who failed to put his body in the line of fire to save […]

Jul, 21

The Tall Target ***½ (1951, Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Paula Raymond, Marshall Thompson, Ruby Dee, Richard Rober, Will Geer) – Classic Movie Review 5696

Director Anthony Mann’s pacy, sharp, suspenseful, tension-packed 1951 train thriller is set in 1861 on a New York to Washington DC train via Baltimore. The movie stands out from the crowd in that the Tall […]

Jul, 02

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 Jackal *** (1997, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Mathilda May, J K Simmons) – Classic Movie Review 4893

Director Michael Caton-Jones’s capable, quite exciting 1997 action thriller is a more than satisfactory remake of The Day of the Jackal (1973), an admittedly much better film that didn’t need a remake. Richard Gere and Bruce […]

Jan, 15

Assassin’s Creed ** (2016, Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling) – Movie Review

Australian director Justin Kurzel graduates from directing Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in Wlliam Shakespeare’s Macbeth (2015) to directing Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in game series spinoff Assassin’s Creed. Well, fair enough, you go where you can. What we have here is a […]

Jan, 05

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