Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "aviation"

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Sully: Miracle on the Hudson **** (2016, Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney) – Movie Review

Director Clint Eastwood’s 2106 real-life rescue drama Sully is just great, a warm, emotional story, extremely well told. No one could have played Sully but Tom Hanks, who is perfect in the part. It is an ideal […]

Nov, 11

The Spirit of St Louis **** (1957, James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Marc Connelly, Patricia Smith) – Classic Movie Review 3927

James Stewart stars in one of his most famous and warmly regarded roles in director Billy Wilder’s spirited and lavish 1957 biography of aviator Charles A Lindberg, detailing his historic flight from New York to […]

Jun, 26

Airport **** (1970, Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Helen Hayes, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton, Barry Nelson) – Classic Movie Review 3432

Airport is rightly considered by many to be the grandfather of the disaster movie genre as the precursor to later epic Seventies disaster films. In a dramatic 12 hours, the twin hazards of a severe […]

Mar, 01

The Aviator *** (2004, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin) – Classic Movie Review 592

Director Martin Scorsese’s patchy, rambling and overlong 2004 biopic of legendary film director and plane and movie mogul Howard Hughes is sometimes  hard work, and nothing new emerges. But it re-tells a story most people won’t know […]

Dec, 30

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