Derek Winnert

Muscle Beach Party *** (1964, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Luciana Paluzzi, Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett) – Classic Movie Review 6217

When a new gym opens up near their stretch of sand, it is back to the beach with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello for director William Asher’s hasty 1964 follow-up to their smash hit Beach […]

Nov, 09 · in Uncategorized

Bikini Beach ** (1964, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Don Rickles, Harvey Lembeck, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 6216

In 1964, American International Pictures released Bikini Beach, the third of its Beach Party movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. It is co-written and directed by William Asher. How is this for blatant advertising: ‘It’s where the […]

Nov, 09 · in Uncategorized

Fathom *** (1967, Raquel Welch, Tony Franciosa, Richard Briers, Clive Revill, Ronald Fraser) – Classic Movie Review 6215

Raquel Welch and Richard Briers pair up together for the engagingly daft 1967 British spy caper film Fathom. Probably you never expected to see a movie with Raquel Welch and Richard Briers paired up together, […]

Nov, 09

The Shooter [Hidden Assassin] ** (1995, Dolph Lundgren, Maruschka Detmers, Assumpta Serna, Gavan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 6214

Dolph Lundgren stars as the US federal agent Michael Dane, who is sent to locate and abduct Simone Rosset (Maruschka Detmers), the beautiful suspected assassin of the Cuban ambassador in New York before she strikes […]

Nov, 08

Shooters * (2002, Adrian Dunbar, Louis Dempsey, Andrew Howard, Gerard Butler, Jason Hughes, Ioan Gruffudd, Matthew Rhys) – Classic Movie Review 6213

There is a great cast to give a lift to directors Glenn Durfort and Colin Teague’s grim, rough-hewn, and typically reprehensibly violent 2002 British-made gangster thriller movie, in which an Irish gang leader becomes embroiled […]

Nov, 08

The Shooting **** (1966, Warren Oates, Will Hutchins, Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 6,212

Monte Hellman’s gritty 1966 existential Western film The Shooting stars a grinning Jack Nicholson as a merciless hired killer who comes up against bounty hunters Willett Gashade and Coley (Warren Oates and Will Hutchins). Director […]

Nov, 08

Ride in the Whirlwind *** (1966, Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins) – Classic Movie Review 6,211

The enigmatic 1966 existential Western film Ride in the Whirlwind reunites screen-writer / star Jack Nicholson and director Monte Hellman, the duo responsible for The Shooting. The enigmatic 1966 existential Western film Ride in the […]

Nov, 08

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