Derek Winnert

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Red Dawn **** (1984, Patrick Swayze, C Thomas Howell, Ron O’Neal, William Smith, Powers Boothe, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey) – Classic Movie Review 5457

Co-writer/ director John Milius’s 1984 American Eighties right-wing propaganda action thriller Any Which Way You Can is thoroughly disreputable, but also sneakily very enjoyable as a guilty pleasure. In Milius’s screenplay with Kevin Reynolds (who […]

May, 15

Logan **** (2017, Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Richard E Grant) – Movie Review

Death is everywhere in co-writer/ director James Mangold’s dark and dangerous R-rated movie follow-up to The Wolverine (2013), with Hugh Jackman back for what he has named his final turn as Logan. So the Logan movie is not […]

Feb, 22

X-Men Origins: Wolverine **** (2009, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, Danny Huston) – Classic Movie Review 806

Pecs gleaming and locks glowing, Hugh Jackman growls and glowers to comic-book perfection as James Logan, who becomes the fighting machine known as Wolverine, a hairy bloke with handy killer claws, nifty healing powers and […]

Feb, 08

X-Men 2 ***** (2003, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Brian Cox, Ian McKellen) – Classic Movie Review 241

The 2003 sequel X-Men 2 brings the whole crew back, but gives most the movie over to Hugh Jackman’s hunky Wolverine and Brian Cox’s evil scientist General William Stryker, seeking vengeance on Professor Xavier (Patrick […]

Sep, 14

X-Men ***** (2000, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen) – Classic Film Review 96

Director Bryan Singer’s landmark 2000 sci-fi adventure movie is a thrilling, visually astounding adaptation of the Marvel comic books. Hugh Jackman and Anna Paquin star as gifted mutants Wolverine and Rogue, who join Professor Xavier’s […]

Jul, 27

The Wolverine *** (2013, Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto) – Movie Review

Where have all the mutants gone? Well, I don’t really know, but The Wolverine has gone to modern-day Japan, summoned by an old acquaintance we see him meeting years ago in the film’s prologue. There […]

Jul, 18

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