Derek Winnert

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The Challenge ** (1982, Scott Glenn, Toshirô Mifune, Donna Kei Benz, Atsuo Nakamura) – Classic Movie Review 8525

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1982 American-Japanese macho action movie The Challenge stars Scott Glenn as the down-and-out American boxer Rick, paid to take an inherited sword from the States to Japan and finding himself caught in […]

May, 31

The Last Samurai **** (2003, Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Timothy Spall, Tony Goldwyn) – Classic Movie Review 379

With a flash of his pearly whites and his big Samurai sword, Tom Cruise enjoyed in 2003 perhaps his most complex and demanding role so far as Captain Nathan Algren. Having battled in the US […]

Nov, 09

Kill Bill: Vol 1 **** (2003, Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Vivica A Fox, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Michael Parks) – Classic Movie Review 364

In 2003, Quentin Tarantino returned for his fourth film – or at least half of it, as it’s been chopped in two, with part two eventually released eight months later. Uma Thurman, Marsellus’s sexy, drug-addled wife […]

Nov, 04

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