Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "u.s. president"

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Guarding Tess *** (1994, Nicolas Cage, Shirley MacLaine, Austin Pendleton, Edward Albert, James Rebhorn, Richard Griffiths) – Classic Movie Review 7253

The amusing double act of Nicolas Cage and Shirley MacLaine give a big lift to co-writer/ director Hugh Wilson’s bumpily constructed 1994 Guarding Tess, which tells the tale of a hapless US secret service agent, […]

Jul, 05

Elvis & Nixon ***½ (2016, Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Colin Hanks) – Movie Review

Director Liza Johnson’s engaging and engrossing 2016 shaggy dog story is the previously untold true one of the peculiar meeting between Elvis Presley and US President Richard Nixon on the morning of 21 December 1970. Only in America! The screenplay by Joey Sagal, […]

Jul, 01

London Has Fallen ** (2016, Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett) – Movie Review

Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart are back from Olympus Has Fallen (2013) as American Secret Service man Mike Banning and the US President he’s protecting in this surprise sequel to the surprise hit. Banning’s thinking of […]

Mar, 04

Seven Days in May ***** (1964, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien, Martin Balsam, George Macready) – Classic Movie Review 2533

Fired up director John Frankenheimer’s 1964 paranoia conspiracy thriller simmers with tension and delivers edge-of-the-seat suspense in a story that is all about right-wing general  James Mattoon Scott (Burt Lancaster)’s coup with other military leaders […]

May, 28

Air Force One *** (1997, Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close) – Classic Movie Review 754

In director Wolfgang Petersen’s 1997 action thriler, Harrison Ford stars as the US President, James Marshall, returning home from Moscow aboard his private plane Air Force One, when it is hijacked by Russian terrorists, led […]

Jan, 26

Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ***** (1964, Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Slim Pickens) – Classic Movie Review 209

Based on Peter George’s serious thriller novel Red Alert, Stanley Kubrick’s chillingly hilarious 1964 satire from the terrifying Sixties Cold War era seems as brilliant and relevant as ever. A doomsday black comedy about the […]

Sep, 01

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