Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "car chase"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "car chase".

The Night Caller [Peur sur la Ville] *** (1975, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli, Lea Massari, Rosy Varte) – Classic Movie Review 11,562

France’s top Seventies action star Jean-Paul Belmondo gives an engaging turn as Commissaire Jean Letellier, a cop on the trail of an infamous gangster, bank robbers and a phone-call serial killer of young women, in director […]

Sep, 08

Stroker Ace * (1983, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Jim Nabors, Loni Anderson, Parker Stevenson, Bubba Smith) – Classic Movie Review 11,343

Hal Needham recalled: ‘Stroker Ace is the kind of movie Burt Reynolds and I do best.’ Director Hal Needham’s 1983 action comedy Stroker Ace is a surprise early 80s flop from Burt Reynolds, who should […]

Jun, 25

Cannonball [Carquake] *** (1976, David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel) – Classic Movie Review 9320

Co-writer/ director Paul Bartel’s 1976 Cannonball [Carquake] is a follow-up in similar action vein to his 1975 hit Death Race 2000, this time a full-on Seventies-style slap-up comedy action adventure about the ruthless people, chiefly Coy […]

Jan, 29

Blues Brothers 2000 * (1998, Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, Joe Morton, Nia Peoples, Kathleen Freeman, Frank Oz) – Classic Movie Review 8240

Director John Landis’s 1998 Blues Brothers 2000 is a truly awful, misbegotten, forlorn sequel to the 1980 hit The Blues Brothers, in which Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) is freed from jail and reassembles the old […]

Mar, 13

Yardie ** (2018, Aml Ameen, Stephen Graham, Fraser James ) – Movie Review

Idris Elba’s intriguing but shaky 2018 directorial debut Yardie is a decent and entertaining enough London gangland revenge crime thriller, but overall must count as a bit of disappointment. The problems are a weak period […]

Jun, 03

Grand Theft Auto ** (1977, Ron Howard, Nancy Morgan, Elizabeth Rogers, Barry Cahill, Rance Howard, Paul Linke, Marion Ross) – Classic Movie Review 7108

Two eloping teenagers pinch a Rolls-Royce to get them to their wedding in Las Vegas in style in Ron Howard’s director debut. Ron Howard and Nancy Morgan star in the 1977 action crime comedy Grand Theft Auto […]

Jun, 01

Le Battant [The Fighter] [Ice] *** (1983, Alain Delon, Anne Parillaud, Pierre Mondy, François Périer, Andréa Ferréol) – Classic Movie Review 5,556

Alain Delon gives an intense star turn as Jacques Darnay, convicted for stealing diamonds, released from jail, but pursued by Inspector Rouxel (Pierre Mondy) and the criminals, in the 1983 French crime thriller film Le […]

Jun, 05

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.