Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "TV spinoff"

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The A-Team ** (2010, Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Sharlto Copley, Patrick Wilson) – Classic Movie Review 3844

Much, much worse than the movies of other classic TV shows Mission: Impossible or Charlie’s Angels, The A-Team TV movie spinoff is total nonsense, of course. But what else can you expect? The A-Team is […]

Jun, 11

Dad’s Army **½ (2016, Toby Jones, Bill Nighy, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Daniel Mays, Blake Harrison, Bill Paterson) – Movie Review

There’s a World War Two German spy at work in Walmington-on-Sea and the old boys of the Home Guard are entranced by lovely visiting female journalist Rose Winters (Catherine Zeta-Jones) in this unexpected sitcom revival movie […]

Feb, 02

Dr Who and the Daleks **½ (1965, Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey) – Classic Movie Review 3307

Written and produced by Milton Subotsky, director Gordon Flemyng’s 1965 sci-fi adventure provides Peter Cushing with his turn to play the good Doctor Who in this colourful if disappointingly lame comic-book version of the 1963 BBC […]

Jan, 31

Sword of Sherwood Forest *** (1960 Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall MacGinnis, Nigel Green, Richard Pasco) – Classic Movie Review 2957

Director Terence Fisher’s enjoyable 1960 TV adventure spinoff finds the Hammer Films studio temporarily abandoning horror films and bringing in Richard Greene, the star of Fifties TV’s long-running The Adventures of Robin Hood, to re-create his […]

Oct, 05

Veronica Mars ** (2014, Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni, Jamie Lee Curtis, Percy Daggs III, Gaby Hoffmann, Ryan Hansen, Jerry O’Connell, James Franco) – Movie Review

Here’s a bit of an oddball curio. A US telly show from 2004-2007 that no one here in the UK seems to have heard of gets a belated big-screen spinoff thanks to Kickstarter, which raised […]

Mar, 14

The Karate Killers *** (1967, Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Joan Crawford, Herbert Lom, Curt Jurgens, Telly Savalas, Terry-Thomas, Kim Darby, Diane McBain, Jill Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 374

Robert Vaughn, David McCallum and Joan Crawford star in the 1967 film The Karate Killers, another genial, campy, action-packed adventure from the incredibly popular The Man from U.N.C.L.E.  In 1967 Barry Shear directs The Karate […]

Nov, 06

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