Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "CIA"

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3 Days to Kill ** (2014, Kevin Costner, Amber Heard, Hailee Steinfeld, Connie Nielsen) – Movie Review

Kevin Costner (aged 59) enjoys rare top star billing here these days as Ethan Renner, a cancer-afflicted dying CIA agent trying to reconnect with his snotty estranged teenaged daughter (Hailee Steinfeld) meets the exotic and way […]

Jun, 19

The In-Laws *** (2003, Michael Douglas, Albert Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 1321

Talented players Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks spark director Andrew Fleming’s fun, offbeat 2003 comedy remake of the cult 1979 Peter Falk-Alan Arkin movie. It’s slickly made by Fleming, with scenes shot on location in Chicago. […]

Jun, 13

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind *** (2003, Sam Rockwell, George Clooney, Julia Roberts) – Classic Movie Review 1240

Chuck Barris has a notable place in American TV history as the Sixties and Seventies deviser and host of The Dating Game (1965–1986), the original US version of Blind Date, and host of The Gong […]

May, 22

Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton) – Movie Review

The saga of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 11 attacks in 2001 makes for an extremely powerful, intelligent, disturbing movie, but somehow it doesn’t quite hit the […]

May, 06

Three Days of the Condor **** (1975, Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max Von Sydow, Cliff Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 1154

Director Sydney Pollack’s sizzling 1975 suspense classic thriller offers an eagerly taken perfect role for Robert Redford as Joseph Turner, an innocent bookish CIA researcher on the run from the evil Joubert (Max Von Sydow) […]

Apr, 28

Salt *** (2010, Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor) – Classic Movie Review 980

Angelina Jolie does her action heroine thing again as CIA agent Evelyn Salt, who goes on the run after a defecting Soviet spy accuses her of being a Russian agent about to kill the Russian […]

Mar, 24

The Recruit *** (2003, Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan, Gabriel Macht) – Classic Movie Review 961

‘Rule number one: do not get caught.’ – Walter Burke (Al Pacino). Director Roger Donaldson’s diverting 2003 thriller stars Al Pacino, who enjoys himself hugely in another role that he could play standing on his head, […]

Mar, 22

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