Derek Winnert

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The Siege ** (1999, Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Annette Bening) – Classic Movie Review 1506

Something’s gone rather horribly wrong with producer-director Edward Zwick’s ambitious 1999 thriller. Denzel Washington does his usual stalwart job as Anthony ‘Hub’ Hubbard, a special FBI agent in charge of the Counter-Terrorism Task Forcewho has […]

Aug, 02

Blue Sky **** (1994, Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Amy Locane, Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress, Chris O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 1475

Blue Sky is a splendid final memorial to the late great British director Tony Richardson, who started his movie career filming Look Back in Anger (1959) and A Taste of Honey (1961) and won the Academy […]

Jul, 26

The Wind and the Lion **** (1975, Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith) – Classic Film Review 1400

Writer-director John Milius’s lusty and violent 1975 semi-historical adventure movie stars Edinburgh-born Sean Connery, who triumphs over a highly strange idea of casting him as Arab chieftain Mulai Ahmed Mohammed er-Raisuli the Magnificent. The Berber […]

Jul, 07

G I Jane *** (1997, Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft) – Classic Movie Review 1361

Director Ridley Scott’s 1997 movie stars Demi Moore in one of her key roles. Moore shaves her head and pumps up the muscles for her showy performance as a US intelligence officer, Lieutenant Jordan O’Neil. […]

Jun, 28

Windtalkers *** (Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater, Adam Beach) – Classic Film Review 1218

US sergeants Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater are assigned to protect Navajo marines (Adam Beach, Roger Willie) using their native speech as an undecypherable radio code while fighting the Japanese in Saipan in 1943. Cage […]

May, 15

Small Soldiers *** (1998, Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, David Cross, Jay Mohr, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn, Dick Miller, Ann Magnuson, Dennis Leary) – Classic Movie Review 1175

Director Joe Dante’s 1998 release is a patchy but lively and exuberant toy-action comedy adventure. The tale is daft and thin, but there are plenty of goodish jokes to spin it out in the adroit […]

May, 04

Resident Evil *** (2002, Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan McCluskey) – Classic Movie Review 1163

Commandos enter a secret research facility when an experiment unleashes a deadly virus, but an intelligent computer and zombies turn their mission into a nightmare. Writer-producer-director Paul W S Anderson’s 2002 horror thriller, based on […]

May, 02

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