Derek Winnert

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For Your Eyes Only **** (1981, Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Julian Glover) – Classic Movie Review 1024

The 1981 spy film For Your Eyes Only is James Bond movie number 12, with Roger Moore happily back, a spunky heroine in Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock, and Chaim Topol and Julian Glover oddly […]

Mar, 30

A Time to Kill *** (1996, Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Kevin Spacey) – Classic Film Review 1015

Based on the John Grisham bestselling legal thriller novel, director Joel Schumacher’s 1996 movie is an acceptable, quite enjoyable but rather tepid and vaguely botched racially-aware legal thriller. In Mississippi, an African American father Carl Lee […]

Mar, 29

Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997, Sandra Bullock) – Bad Movie 2

Director Jan de Bont’s 1997 Keanu Reeves-less sequel to the 1994 megahit is a farrago. Everything about it goes wrong where everything went right the first time. You wouldn’t think it was the same director, […]

Mar, 23

Need for Speed ** (2014, Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Michael Keaton) – Movie Review

Lacking much in the way of credibility, excitement or a sense of fun, Need for Speed is shameless junk. It’s predictable, tension free and so darned boring. With all this rushing around on screen, how can that […]

Mar, 13

Quantum of Solace *** (2008, Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench, Giancarlo Giannini, Gemma Arterton, Jeffrey Wright) – Classic Movie Review 844

Daniel Craig returns for his second turn as James Bond in the direct sequel to the 2006 Casino Royale, concluding its story. In the 22nd 007 film, directed by Marc Forster in 2008, Bond seeks revenge […]

Feb, 19

Plunkett & MacLeane **** (1999, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ken Stott, Liv Tyler, Alan Cumming, Michael Gambon) – Classic Film Review 792

Here’s an oddity: an old-style highwayman adventure yarn with a flashy 90s new-style gloss and a welter of anachronisms on the soundtrack, with present-day street language and rock music. The flash is put on it […]

Feb, 02

The Sting ***** (1973, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 790

Director George Roy Hill’s 1973 gem showcases 70s superstars Paul Newman and Robert Redford at their most charismatic in this delicious caper movie set in Thirties Chicago. It is a worthy follow-up to their first hit […]

Feb, 02

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