Derek Winnert

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Superman II **** (1980, Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Terence Stamp, Sarah Douglas, Jack O’Halloran) – Classic Movie Review 2240

Superman II was filmed back to back with the 1978 Superman and was three quarters completed when tensions arose between director Richard Donner and the producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind and a decision was made […]

Mar, 07

The Impostors *** (1998, Stanley Tucci, Oliver Platt, Alfred Molina, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 1691

Writer-star-director Stanley Tucci’s freewheeling 1998 old-style slapstick comedy is engagingly silly, fast-moving entertainment. Tucci and Oliver Platt do a Laurel and Hardy double act as Arthur and Maurice, out-of-work actors on the run – from just […]

Sep, 20

Die Hard 3: Die Hard with a Vengeance *** (1995, Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 1681

This time British Oscar winner Jeremy Irons is the guest star villain as the German terrorist and mad bomber who terrorises New York while tormenting Bruce Willis’s boozed-out cop John McClane with a teasing series of false […]

Sep, 16

The Secret Agent ** (1996, Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Christian Bale) – Classic Movie Review 1550

Writer-director Christopher Hampton’s 1996 new version of the 1907 Joseph Conrad classic novel is only interesting as an honourable failure and to compare it with the book and Alfred Hitchcock’s vintage version of it under […]

Aug, 16

The Long Good Friday ***** (1980, Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Dave King, Bryan Marshall, Derek Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 1220

Director John Mackenzie’s superb 1980 Brit classic is an exciting, trend-setting transfer of an American-style gangster movie to East London. It was voted number 21 in the British Film Institute’s top 100 British films of the […]

May, 16

Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon *** (1942, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Dennis Hoey, Kaaren Verne) – Classic Movie Review 988

The 1942 spy thriller film Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon is Holmes’s second updated B-movie adventure. Basil Rathbone pretends to be a Nazi spy, adopts various disguises and has to crack a code to […]

Mar, 25

Speed ***** (1994, Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Daniels, Joe Morton) – Classic Movie Review 969

Director Jan de Bont’s incredibly fast-moving, nail-bitingly exciting 1994 action thriller turned into an instant classic and provided Keanu Reeves with his breakthrough blockbuster hit as young LAPD officer Jack Traven. It’s his job to save the […]

Mar, 23

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