Derek Winnert

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The Alamo * (2004, Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson, Emilio Echevarría, Jordi Mollà, Leon Rippy, Marc Blucas) – 5055

‘One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.’ – Colonel William Travis. Remember The Alamo? Well, not this version, anyway, for director John Lee Hancock ‘s misjudged, murky-looking and mostly boring 2004 […]

Feb, 24

The Wild Bunch ***** (1969, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien, Warren Oates, Jaime Sanchez, Ben Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 4788

‘ ‘If they move,’ orders William Holden’s Pike Bishop, ‘kill ’em.’ Director Sam Peckinpah’s crucial 1969 Western The Wild Bunch, famed for, or infamous for, depending on your viewpoint, its poetic bloodiness and death in […]

Dec, 12

Texas Across the River ** (1966, Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Joey Bishop, Rosemary Forsyth, Tina Aumont, Peter Graves, Andrew Prine, Michael Ansara) – Classic Movie Review 4779

The 1966 comedy Western film Texas Across the River is a passable old-style entertainment, starring Dean Martin, Alain Delon, Rosemary Forsyth and Joey Bishop. Director Michael Gordon’s 1966 tongue-in-cheek Technicolor and Techniscope American comedy Western film Texas Across the River is […]

Dec, 09

The Sons of Katie Elder *** (1965, John Wayne, Dean Martin, Michael Anderson Jr, Earl Holliman, Martha Hyer, Jeremy Slate, James Gregory, Paul Fix, George Kennedy, Dennis Hopper) – Classic Movie Review 4504

Director Henry Hathaway’s 1965 old-style big-budget Western has a great cast and is thoroughly robust but it suffers from having a commonplace tale about the four macho-minded ranch owner sons of the frontier woman Katie […]

Oct, 22

The Giant Gila Monster ** (1959, Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher, Ken Knox, Fred Graham) – Classic Movie Review 4411

Director Ray Kellogg’s low-budget 1959 sci-fi monster movie stars Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone,  Shug Fisher (as the comedy relief) and KLIF disc jockey Ken Knox. Of course it is pretty bad, but it is a fun Fifties B-movie cult classic. Teens are […]

Sep, 26

Hell or High Water **** (2016, Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham, John-Paul Howard, Marin Ireland, Dale Dickey) – Movie Review

Jeff Bridges stars as bad-tempered, well crusty, old sheriff Marcus Hamilton, who with his buddy Mexican Indian cop Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham) is doggedly on the trail of divorced dad Toby Howard and his ex-con brother Tanner, […]

Sep, 08

The Rookie **** (2002, Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Brian Cox, Jay Hernandez, Beth Grant) – Classic Movie Review 4,114

Dennis Quaid gives a strong, charismatic performance in the 2002 film The Rookie as Jim Morris, who debuted in US Major League Baseball at the age of 35. Rachel Griffiths plays his neglected wife, and […]

Aug, 01

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