Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "revenge"

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High Plains Drifter **** (1973, Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill) – Classic Movie Review 2530

Director-star Clint Eastwood’s surreal and brooding 1973 revenge Western High Plains Drifter is rich and strange, and proves one of his finest films. It is his first Western as director and second film as director […]

May, 27

Son of Frankenstein **** (1939, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Josephine Hutchinson) – Classic Movie Review 2,506

The 1939 horror movie Son of Frankenstein is the third film in Universal’s superb Frankenstein series, the last to star Boris Karloff as the Monster but the first to feature Bela Lugosi as Ygor. Director […]

May, 20

Mad Max **** (1979, Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley) – Classic Movie Review 2468

Director George Miller’s smart 1979 cult favourite Australian sci-fi action thriller Mad Max stars the magnetic young Mel Gibson, who heads for superstardom in this low-budget gang orientated road movie, set in a post-World War […]

May, 10

The Salvation **** (2014, Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Douglas Henshall, Jonathan Pryce) – Movie Review

This tremendous revenge Western from co-writer/director Kristian Levring has everything you’d expect, or hope for, except American filming! But it looks just great shot in South Africa, with a little help from CGI. Mads Mikkelsen suffers […]

Apr, 15

Razorback **** (1984, Gregory Harrison, Arkie Whiteley, Bill Kerr, Chris Haywood, David Argue) – Classic Movie Review 2337

Director Russell Mulcahy’s brilliant, stupendously imaginative 1984 Australian horror film is razor-sharp, totally weird and completely scary. It is a notable example of the Ozploitation(Australian exploitation) movie. Based on Peter Brennan‘s novel, writer Everett De Roche’s […]

Mar, 31

Highlander: Endgame *** (2000, Christopher Lambert, Adrian Paul, Bruce Payne) – Classic Movie Review 2334

Director Douglas Aarniokoski’s 2000 unsubtle, but fast-paced, action-packed sci-fi fantasy adventure thriller brings Christopher Lambert back for his fourth turn as the sword-fighting immortal Connor MacLeod. This time he is meeting up with his long-lost immortal […]

Mar, 30

Cat Ballou **** (1965, Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin) – Classic Movie Review 2325

Director Elliot Silverstein’s likeable, raucously amusing 1965 spoof Western stars Jane Fonda as the titular Cat (Catherine) Ballou, a schoolmarm turned outlaw and Lee Marvin in dual roles as Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn, the cinema’s most […]

Mar, 29

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