Derek Winnert

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Blown Away *** (1994, Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Lloyd Bridges, Forest Whitaker) – Classic Movie Review 7677

Director Stephen Hopkins’s 1994 action crime thriller Blown Away is an involving, suspenseful and intelligent thriller but at the same time it is uncomfortable and exploitative feeling. Jeff Bridges stars as Boston bomb squad man […]

Oct, 19

Black ’47 **** (2018, Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan, Jim Broadbent) – Movie Review

Director Lance Daly’s 2018 period action drama Black ’47 is a heart-pounding tale of brutal revenge set in Ireland amid the repression and starvation horrors of the great Irish famine of 1847. Sometimes, it is […]

Sep, 30

The Fighting Prince of Donegal *** (1966, Peter McEnery, Susan Hampshire, Tom Adams, Gordon Jackson, Andrew Keir) – Classic Movie Review 7560

Director Michael O’Herlihy’s 1966 The Fighting Prince of Donegal stars Peter McEnery as the peace-loving but brash young rebel Irishman Hugh O’Donnell, who inherits the title of Prince of Donegal. He is kidnapped and jailed by […]

Sep, 12

Hangman’s House *** (1928, Victor McLaglen, June Collyer, Larry Kent, Earle Fox, Hobart Bosworth) – Classic Movie Review 7466

John Ford’s good-looking 1928 silent movie Hangman’s House is a romantic drama set in County Wicklow, Ireland. Based on a novel by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne, it is adapted by Philip Klein with scenarios by Marion Orth and with inter-titles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. […]

Aug, 18

Young Cassidy *** (1964, Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Edith Evans, Flora Robson, Michael Redgrave, Julie Christie, T P McKenna, Jack MacGowran) – Classic Movie Review 7439

John Ford was ailing and became sick while directing this 1964 autobiographical portrait of the young life of the playwright and writer Sean O’Casey (Rod Taylor, though he bears no resemblance to him) in Ireland, so Jack […]

Aug, 13

War of the Buttons *** (1994, Gregg Fitzgerald, John Coffey, Paul Batt) – Classic Movie Review 6463

Director John Roberts’s 1994 family friendly comedy movie is an Irish-set remake of Yves Robert’s 1962 French film La guerre des boutons [War of the Buttons]. This time it is the boys of neighbouring sleepy villages […]

Dec, 24

The MacKintosh Man *** (1973, Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Ian Bannen, Nigel Patrick, Michael Hordern, Peter Vaughan, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 6,037

Paul Newman stars as an undercover government agent hired to trap a spying British Member of Parliament (James Mason), in director John Huston’s quick-paced 1973 Cold War spy thriller film The MacKintosh Man. Paul Newman […]

Sep, 23

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