Derek Winnert

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Any Which Way You Can **½ (1980, Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Ruth Gordon, Geoffrey Lewis, Harry Guardino, Glen Campbell, William Smith) – Classic Movie Review 4105

Director Buddy Van Horn’s ragged but lusty 1980 action adventure Any Which Way You Can is the hasty sequel to Clint Eastwood’s surprise 1978 hit Every Which Way But Loose. It finds the ever-popular star […]

Jul, 30

Year of the Dragon **** (1985, Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Ariane) – Classic Movie Review 3965

Director Michael Cimino’s ferocious 1985 thriller Year of the Dragon is complex and exciting. It boasts a convincingly dangerous star performance from Mickey Rourke as Stanley White, the police detective on the edge who is […]

Jul, 03

The Sicilian *** (1987, Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Richard Bauer, Barbara Sukowa, Ray McAnally, Aldo Ray) – Movie Review 3964

Director Michael Cimino’s prestigious 1987 true-story-based thriller comes to us in a screenplay by the highly notable Steve Shagan and Gore Vidal, via a novel by Mario Puzo, the author of The Godfather. It is […]

Jul, 03

Midnight Run **** (1988, Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, John Ashton) – Classic Movie Review 3363

A fit and trim Robert De Niro storms back to a meaty starring part after a series of cameo roles in the mid-Eighties in director Martin Brest’s excellent 1988 mismatched-buddy chase thriller Midnight Run. It […]

Feb, 15

Escobar – Paradise Lost ***½ (2015, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hutcherson, Claudia Traisac) – Movie Review

Josh Hutcherson stars as a young Canadian surfer who goes to live on the paradise beach in Colombia with his brother (Brady Corbet), and meets Maria (Claudia Traisac), the woman of his dreams. But then heaven turns into […]

Aug, 20

Thief [Violent Streets] **** (1981, James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky, Dennis Farina) – Classic Movie Review 2714

Writer-director Michael Mann’s intriguing and involving 1981 neo-noir heist thriller Thief is his cinema début as director after the TV movie The Jericho Mile in 1979. It showcases a rich and riveting James Caan performance […]

Jul, 17

Suicide Kings **** (1997, Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Sean Patrick Flanery) – Classic Movie Review 2609

Christopher Walken stars as New York crime boss Charles Bennett, who is kidnapped from his favourite restaurant by four rich boys (Sean Patrick Flanery, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Henry Thomas) and awakes to find himself […]

Jun, 17

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