Derek Winnert

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Day of the Evil Gun *** (1968, Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger) – Classic Movie Review 8309

Director Jerry Thorpe’s torpor-ridden 1968 B-movie Western Day of the Evil Gun may be routine but at least it has a very decent cast and a lot of old-style professionalism to recommend it. Glenn Ford […]

Mar, 29

The Kid Who Would Be King ** (2019, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Denise Gough, Dean Chaumoo, Tom Taylor, Rhianna Dorris)

The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) is a good-hearted but lame, tame and wilfully old-fashioned kids’ adventure movie, offering a fairly dull spin on the Arthurian legend. It just goes to show that, like […]

Feb, 23

The Swimmer **** (1968, Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule, Janet Landgard, Kim Hunter, Diana Muldaur) – Classic Movie Review 5046

Producer-director Frank Perry’s weird but intriguing 1968 surreal drama stars Burt Lancaster as Neddy Merrill, a 50-year-old businessman who decides to jog from pool to pool to swim the eight miles to his home through the […]

Feb, 22

Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey *** (1993, Robert Hayes, Kim Griest, Jean Smart, voices Michael J Fox, Sally Field, Don Ameche) – Classic Movie Review 4351

Walt Disney Pictures’s sweet, amusing and engrossing 1993 family movie remake of its 1963 wildlife hit The Incredible Journey re-tells the tale of a trio of pets, two dogs and a cat, trekking across mountains, […]

Sep, 12

The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader *** (2010, Ben Barnes, Will Poulter, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes) – Classic Movie Review 3266

Director Michael Apted’s tauter and leaner 2010 third Narnia episode has considerably improved on its predecessors on the adventure front, with more imaginative and appealing special effects, music, cinematography and sets this time. Staying reasonably close […]

Jan, 13

National Lampoon’s Vacation **** (1983, Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Imogene Coca, Eddie Bracken) – Classic Movie Review 2763

Director Harold Ramis’s 1983 comedy stars Chevy Chase as inventor Clark Griswold, who takes a vacation across America from the family home in Chicago to California’s famous ‘Walley World’ theme park, named after Eddie Bracken’s thin m0ustached […]

Aug, 01

DragonHeart **** (1996, Dennis Quaid, Julie Christie, David Thewlis, Dina Meyer, Pete Postlethwaite, Jason Isaacs, voice of Sean Connery) – Classic Movie Review 2214

Director Rob Cohen’s 1996 is Arthurian legend adventure film doesn’t quite star Sean Connery – only his inimitable voice and a computer-generated dragon based on his movements. It really is a performance that an actor […]

Feb, 25

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