Derek Winnert

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The Thief of Bagdad ***** (1924, Douglas Fairbanks Sr, Julanne Johnston, Snitz Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 1791

Writer-producer-star Douglas Fairbanks Sr took several of the 1001 Nights tales as his starting point to fashion the story of this classic 1924 silent movie as a showy vehicle for himself. He plays the clever Thief […]

Oct, 31

Violent Saturday **** (1955, Richard Egan, Victor Mature, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine) – Classic Movie Review 1700

Director Richard Fleischer’s exciting, high-impact, high-anxiety 1955 suspense thriller focuses on the fallout of a vicious bank heist on a small town community in Arizona. A gang of hoodlums (Stephen McNally, Lee Marvin, J Carrol Naish) decides […]

Sep, 21

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang *** (2005, Robert Downey Jr, Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan) – Classic Movie Review 1669

Robert Downey Jr appears with his son Indio in this tongue-in-cheek 2005 hardboiled crime comedy, written and directed by Shane Black, also starring Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan and Corbin Bernsen. Indio plays Downey’s character Harry Lockhart at […]

Sep, 14

Paulie *** (1998, Jay Mohr, Gena Rowlands, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin) – Classic Movie Review 1654

It’s a bird’s life! Paulie is a parrot who can speak – not just mimic but really talk – in director John Roberts’s appealing and touching 1998 magical DreamWorks adventure for all the family. Paulie […]

Sep, 08

Maverick *** (1994, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner) – Classic Movie Review 1460

Mel Gibson stars as the reincarnation of TV’s famed 1957-62 card-playing gambler Bret Maverick in director Richard Donner’s breezy, likeable and entertaining 1994 comedy Western. Maverick needs an additional $3000 to enter a Winner Take All poker […]

Jul, 21

The Art of the Steal *** (2013, Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon, Jay Baruchel, Terence Stamp) – Movie Review

An ancient-looking Kurt Russell (aged 63) stars as semi-reformed art thief Crunch Calhoun, who agrees to re-assemble his old gang for one last heist. Along with his possibly duplicitous brother Nicky (Matt Dillon) and a hyper new young […]

Jun, 19

Mission: Impossible II *** (2000, Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 1290

Director John Woo’s costly (£125million) 2000 sequel to the smash-hit 1996 original sees Tom Cruise return as IMF secret agent Ethan Hunt, who delivers more flashy, scrappy high-octane action in this second brain-in-neutral, edge-of-seat blockbuster. […]

Jun, 04

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