Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "chase"

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Diva **** (1981, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer, Roland Bertin) – Classic Movie Review 4224

Young Parisian writer-director Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1981 French thriller Diva is his witty, trendy and stylish film debut. Pushing a lot harder than most movies and turning its back on the realist mood of Seventies, Diva […]

Aug, 24

The In-Laws **** (1979, Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini) – Classic Movie Review 4195

Super-talented players Peter Falk and Alan Arkin put the spark in producer-director Arthur Hiller’s huge fun 1979 offbeat buddy comedy, deliciously written by Andrew Bergman, full of quirky, zany and unexpected humour. Arkin plays dentist […]

Aug, 18

The Rookie ** (1990, Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Tom Skerritt, Lara Flynn Boyle, Pepe Serna, Mara Corday) – Classic Movie Review 4113

Director Clint Eastwood’s violent, nasty 1990 police thriller stars Eastwood yet again as Nick Pulovski, a maverick short-tempered veteran LA cop (absolutely not Dirty Harry!) determined to find the man who murdered his former partner. He […]

Aug, 01

Hatari! ** (1962, John Wayne, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, Gérard Blain, Michèle Girardon, Bruce Cabot) – Classic Movie Review 3921

John Wayne, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, Gérard Blain, Michèle Girardon, Bruce Cabot and company look as though they are having a better time than the animals they are chasing in producer-director Howard Hawks’s […]

Jul, 02

Lethal Weapon 2 *** (1989, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Joss Ackland, Derrick O’Connor, Patsy Kensit) – Classic Movie Review 3716

Lethal Weapon screen-writer Shane Black created the characters and co-wrote the story (with Warren Murphy) for this snappy, adroit and of course violent sequel to the 1987 hit. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are back as two of America’s unlikeliest […]

May, 18

Hunted [The Stranger in Between] **** (1952, Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars, Kay Walsh) – Classic Movie Review 3675

Director Charles Crichton’s 1952 British noir thriller stars Dirk Bogarde as Chris, a murderer on the run who is joined by a small boy, the six-year-old Robbie (Jon Whiteley), running away from the home he […]

May, 08

The Flim-Flam Man [One Born Every Minute] ***½ (1967, George C Scott, Michael Sarrazin, Sue Lyon, Harry Morgan, Jack Albertson, Alice Ghostley, Albert Salmi, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 3,187

The unlikely pair of George C Scott and Michael Sarrazin team up to star in the folksy 1967 US small-town comedy film The Flim-Flam Man as an ageing conman and a young army deserter who […]

Dec, 27

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