Derek Winnert

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1941 **** (1979, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams, Christopher Lee, Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, Warren Oates, Robert Stack) – Classic Movie Review 1,941

Steven Spielberg’s 1979 epic comedy film 1941 about a Japanese submarine arriving off Los Angeles, causing panic in the wake of Pearl Harbor, was a huge, unexpected flop. John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams and […]

Dec, 10

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country *** (1991, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, David Warner, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 1923

Director Nicholas Meyer returns to the helm in 1991 for the engaging sixth movie that supposedly was to be last ever episode. In the story, Captain James T Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of […]

Dec, 06

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier *** (1989, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, David Warner, Laurence Luckinbill, George Takei, Walter Koenig) – Classic Movie Review 1922

After director Leonard Nimoy’s jovial Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), the starship USS Enterprise comes down to Earth with a dullish thud in 1989 as William Shatner takes over the directing helm as […]

Dec, 06

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan **** (1982, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Ricardo Montalban, Paul Winfield, Kirstie Alley) – Classic Movie Review 1919

The whole old crew of the USS Starship Enterprise are all aboard for director Nicholas Meyer’s tighter, tauter and generally much improved 1982 first sequel to 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This time Ricardo […]

Dec, 06

Star Trek: Insurrection *** (1998, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, F Murray Abraham) – Classic Movie Review 1924

Jonathan Frakes returns as director for the 1998 ninth Star Trek episode, the third movie featuring the Next Generation characters. It is a very pleasantly entertaining episode, a notch up from Frakes’s previous movie, Star […]

Dec, 06

Courage Under Fire *** (1996, Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 1779

Director Edward Zwick’s 1996 war movie stars Meg Ryan who is working outside her usual romcom comfort zone and isn’t really credible as an action woman. This flashback-told Gulf War drama is seen through the […]

Oct, 25

Broken Arrow *** (1996, John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis) Classic Movie Review 1722

Director John Woo’s wild and wayward 1996 action thriller provides John Travolta with an extravagant role that he clearly relishes as cool aviator Major Vic Deakins. He hijacks his own plane with a couple of […]

Sep, 30

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