Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "on the run"

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Survivor ** (2015, Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Dylan McDermott, Frances de la Tour, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Roger Rees) – Movie Review

Milla Jovovich stars as a kickass US State Department employee whose job on her new posted to the American embassy in London is stopping terrorists from getting into the US. With her brilliant instincts, she smells […]

Jun, 03

No Man of Her Own *** (1932, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Paul Ellis, J Farrell MacDonald, Dorothy Mackaill) – Classic Movie Review 2260

Director Wesley Ruggles’s 1932 comedy-drama romance No Man of Her Own is unique as the only film to star Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, who married in 1939. Gable stars as Babe Stewart, a high-stakes poker player […]

Mar, 13

The Getaway **** (1994, Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods) – Classic Movie Review 2228

Director Roger Donaldson’s 1994 action crime thriller is a surprise remake of the Steve McQueen-Ali MacGraw 1972 classic favourite. This time Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger star as the crooks on the run from both […]

Mar, 01

You Only Live Once ***** (1937, Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, William Gargan, Barton MacLane) – Classic Movie Review 2176

Fritz Lang’s splendid 1937 film noir crime melodrama thriller You Only Live Once is one of his best, most distinguished movies. It stars Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney and is set in Depression-hit America. Director […]

Feb, 14

Taken 3 *** (2014, Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace) – Movie Review

Liam Neeson returns for a third and supposedly final time as ex-government operative Bryan Mills, who starts things off again in Los Angeles a couple of years after the events of part 2 in Istanbul […]

Jan, 06

They Live by Night ***** (1948, Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, Howard DaSilva, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 1585

This beautiful, supremely sensitive, highly emotional 1948 poetic film noir about doomed lovers on the run is cult co-writer/director Nicholas Ray’s superb first movie. The prototype for the whole couple on the run genre, it is way […]

Aug, 23

The Getaway ***** (1972, Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, Sally Struthers, Jack Dodson, Slim Pickens, Dub Taylor, Bo Hopkins, Richard Bright) – Classic Movie Review 1355

Director Sam Peckinpah’s 1972 action crime thriller The Getaway is one of this great director’s greatest movies, and most successful. Peckinpah and screenwriter Walter Hill turn esteemed pulp-fiction writer Jim Thompson’s novel into a sweaty-palmed, […]

Jun, 25

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